Santa Fé de Goiás

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Santa Fé de Goiás
State Goiás
Area: 1,160.8 km²
Population: 4,434 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation: 362m above sea level
Postcode (CEP): 76265-000
IBGE statistical microregion: Rio Vermelho Microregion
Became a city: 1989
Distance to Goiânia: 259 km.
Website: none

Santa Fé de Goiás is a small town and municipality in west-central Goiás state, Brazil.

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[edit] Location

Santa Fé is located almost directly west of Brasília and northwest of Goiânia. The nearest town of any size is Jussara, which lies 34 km. to the southeast.

Neighboring municipalities: Jussara, Britânia, Itapirapuã

[edit] Political Information

  • Mayor: Ademar Marques de Carvalho (January 2005)
  • City council: 09
  • Eligible voters: 3,513 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic Information

  • Population density: 3.82 inhab/km² (2005)
  • Urban population: 3,459 (2003)
  • Rural population: 797 (2003)
  • Population growth: a gain of about 900 people since 1991

[edit] Economic Information

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.

  • Industrial units: 5 (2005)
  • Commercial units: 41 (2005)
  • Dairy: (22/05/2006)
  • Meat-packing plant: Frigorífico Arantes Ltda
  • Financial institutions: (01/06/2005)
  • Automobiles: 143 (2004)
  • Cattle herd: 129,290 head (4,700 milk cows)
  • Poultry: 7,210
  • Swine: 1,360
  • Main crops: cotton, rice, sugarcane, bananas, sesame seeds, corn, and soybeans.

[edit] Education (2005)

  • Schools: 4
  • Classrooms: 28
  • Teachers: 51
  • Students: 1,291
  • Higher education: none
  • Adult literacy rate: 83.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

  • Hospitals: 0
  • Hospital beds: 0
  • Ambulatory clinics: 2
  • Doctors, nurses, dentists: 3, 1, 1 (2002)
  • Infant mortality rate: 26.34 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

[edit] Human Development Index

  • Life expectancy: 68.0
  • Adult literacy rate: 0.818
  • School attendance rate: 0.782
  • MHDI: 0.713
  • State ranking: 190 (out of 242 municipalities)
  • National ranking: 2,744 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

For the complete list see Frigoletto.com

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[edit] Sources of Data

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