Santo Antônio de Goiás

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Santo Antônio de Goiás is a small town and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil, located just north of the state capital, Goiânia.

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[edit] Important Facts

  • Population: 3,806 (2005)
  • Elevation: not available
  • Area: 132.8 km²
  • Became a municipality: 1993
  • Microregion: Goiânia Microregion [1]
  • Distance from Goiânia: 42 km. with connections by way of GO-462.

[edit] Location

Neighboring municipalities are:

[edit] Political Information

  • Mayor: Lourival Vaz da Costa (January 2005)
  • City council: 09
  • Eligible voters: 2,743 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic Information

  • Population density: 28.66 inhab/km² (2005)
  • Urban population: 2,564 (2000)
  • Rural population: 542 (2000)
  • Population growth: a gain of about 1,400 people since 1996

[edit] Economic Information

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

  • Industrial units: 7 (2005)
  • Commercial units: 29 (2005)
  • Dairy: none (22/05/2006)
  • Meat-packing plant: none (22/05/2006)
  • Financial institutions: none (01/06/2005)
  • Automobiles: 320 (2004)
  • Cattle herd: 16,845 head (1,646 milk cows) (2004)
  • Poultry: 44,161 head (2004)
  • Swine: 1,812 head (2004)
  • Main crops: bananas, sugarcane, rice (400 hectares), beans, manioc, oranges, lemons, tangerines, corn (600 hectares), tomatoes, and soybeans.

[edit] Education (2005)

  • Schools: 3
  • Classrooms: 25
  • Teachers: 51
  • Students: 1,320
  • Higher education: none
  • Adult literacy rate: 86.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

  • Hospitals: 0
  • Hospital beds: 0
  • Ambulatory clinics: 3
  • Doctors, nurses, dentists: 8, 2, 4 (2002)
  • Infant mortality rate: 20.96 (2000) (national average was 33.0.


[edit] Municipal Human Development Index

  • Life expectancy: 70.160
  • Adult literacy rate: 0.855
  • School attendance rate: 0.763
  • Monthly per capita income: 215.349
  • MHDI: 0.749
  • State ranking: 79/242 municipalities
  • National ranking: 1,904/5,507 municipalities

Data are from 2000

Frigoletto.com

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