Silvânia
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| Silvânia | |
|---|---|
| State | Goiás |
| Area: | 2,860.1 km² |
| Population: | 19,022 (IBGE 2005) |
| Elevation: | 917 m above sea level |
| Postcode (CEP): | 76160-000 |
| IBGE statistical microregion: | Pires do Rio Microregion |
| Became a city: | 1847 |
| Distance to Goiânia: | 77 km. |
| Website: | none |
Silvânia is a small city and municipality in southcentral Goiás state, Brazil.
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[edit] Geography and highway connections
Silvânia is located 77 kilometers from the state capital of Goiânia, 180 km. from the national capital of Brasília, and 65 from the second most important city of the state, Anápolis. The highways that link it with other cities are: GO-330 , GO-010, GO-139 and GO-437.
Connections starting in Goiânia are made by BR-457 / GO-010 / Bonfinópolis / Leopoldo de Bulhões / GO-437 / GO-139. [1]
It borders the municipalities of Gameleira de Goiás, Abadiânia and Alexânia to the north; Vianópolis, São Miguel do Passa Quatro and Bela Vista de Goiás to the south; Luziânia and Orizona to the east; Caldazinha and Leopoldo de Bulhões to the west.
The climate is tropical humid, with an average annual temperature of 23 °C. The annual rainfal is 1,750 millimeters. The vegetation is cerrado or savanna.
[edit] Political information
- Mayor: João Corrêa Caixeta (January 2005)
- City council: 09
- Eligible voters: 13,001 (April/2006)
[edit] Demographic information
- Population density: 8.4 inhab/km² (2005)
- Urban population: 9,530 (2003)
- Rural population: 8,843 (2003)
- Population growth: a loss of about 800 people since 1980
[edit] Economy
The main economic activities are dairy cattle and soybean growing. Silvânia has large areas planted in soybeans and corn. Brickmaking is also very important for the local economy with Cerâmica Dois Irmãos producing 50 thousand pieces of bricks and roof tiles per day and employing 45 workers.[2] Production is shipped to Goiânia and Brasília.
- Industrial units: 28 (2005)
- Commercial units: 139 (2005)
- Dairy: Granja Leiteira Sol Dourado Ltda. - Coop. Agrop. dos Prod. Rurais de Silvânia (22/05/2006)
- Financial institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. - CEF - Banco Itaú S.A. (01/06/2005)
- Motor vehicles: 1,713 (2004)
- Cattle herd: 111,400,780 head (17,500 milk cows)
- Poultry: 95,100
- Swine: 14,450
- Main crops in 2005: cotton, rice (6 kmª), sweet potatoes, coffee, sugarcane, barley, beans (18.5 kmª), guava, oranges, manioc, corn (31 kmª), soybeans (500 kmª), and tomatoes.
[edit] Education (2005)
- Schools: 16
- Classrooms: 231
- Teachers: 102
- Students: 5,088
- Higher education: Unidade Universitária da UEG
- Adult literacy rate: 88.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
Silvânia is home to two of the most important schools in the last century in Goiás, Instituto Auxiliadora and Ginásio Anchieta.
[edit] Health (2003)
- Hospitals: 1
- Hospital beds: 30
- Ambulatory clinics: 10
- Doctors, nurses, dentists: 20, 8, 7 (2002)
- Infant mortality rate: 15.08 (2000) (national average was 33.0)
[edit] Human Development Index
- Life expectancy: 72.8
- Adult literacy rate: 0.867
- School attendance rate: 0.786
- MHDI: 0.777
- State ranking: 36 (out of 242 municipalities)
- National ranking: 1,223 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
(All data are from 2000)
For the complete list see: [3]
[edit] Tourism
Silvânia has cultural attractions that are valuable for local and regional culture. Monuments from the eighteenth century, century-old houses, possible archeological and remains of the bandeirante and Black colonization are some of the attractions.
Presently Silvânia has about 14 establishments related to tourism: six hotels, five restaurants and three camping grounds.[4]
Although it became a municipality in 1857 with the name Bonfim, in 1943 Bonfim was substituted by Silvânia in tribute to a local figure, Vicente Miguel da Silva.
