Três Ranchos

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Três Ranchos
State	Goiás
Area:	282.0 km²
Population:	3,189 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation:	687m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	75985-000
IBGE statistical microregion:	017 Catalão Microregion
Became a city:	1953
Distance to Goiânia:	383 km.
Website:	none

Três Ranchos is a small town and municipality in south Goiás state, Brazil.

1 Location
2 Connections
3 Political Information
4 Demographic Information
5 Economic Information
6 Education (2005)
7 Health (2003)
8 Tourism
9 Climate
10 Municipal Human Development Index
11 See also
12 Sources of Data

[edit] Location

Três Ranchos is located in the Catalão Microregion [1] and is bordered by:

North: Ouvidor
East: Paranaíba River
South: Catalão and once again by the Paranaíba
West: Catalão.

[edit] Connections

It is connected to the important city of Catalão by highway GO-230, passing through Ouvidor. The distance to Catalão is 28 km.

The distance to Goiânia is 383 km. Highway connections are made by BR-352 / Bela Vista de Goiás / Cristianópolis / GO-020 / Pires do Rio / BR-352 / GO-330 / Ipameri / Catalão / GO-330 / BR-352. [2]

There is also a small airport and two ferries that connect with the state of Minas Gerais crossing the artificial lake of Emborcação.

[edit] Political Information

Mayor: Nivaldo da Silva Aguiar (January 2005)
City council: 09 members
Eligible voters: 2,528 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic Information

Population density: 11.31 inhab/km² (2005)
Urban population: 2,276 (2000)
Rural population: 555 (2000)
Population growth: a gain of about 1,000 people since 1980

[edit] Economic Information

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries. Três Ranchos has the largest organic coffee plantation in the country.

In 2002 the GDP was 10.48 million Reais. This was ranked 225 out of 246 municipalities in the state. The agricultural sector produced 2.9 million Reais of the GDP, industry produced 1.6 million Reais, and services produced 5.7 million Reais.

Industrial units: 1 (2005)
Commercial units: 28 (2005)
Dairy: none (22/05/2006)
Meat-packing plant: none (22/05/2006)
Financial institutions: none (01/06/2005)
Automobiles: 264 (2004)
Cattle herd: 12,800 head (5,030 milk cows) (2004)
Poultry: 31,300 head (2004)
Swine: 830 head (2004)
Main crops: rice, beans, manioc, corn (200 hectares), and soybeans (500 hectares).

[edit] Education (2005)

Schools: 2
Classrooms: 18
Teachers: 34
Students: 803
Higher education: none
Adult literacy rate: 90.2% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

Hospitals: 0
Hospital beds: 0
Ambulatory clinics: 1
Doctors, nurses, dentists: 2, 0, 3 (2002)
Infant mortality rate: 14.32 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

[edit] Tourism

Emborcação Reservoir, on the Paranaíba is famous for its blue color and is called Lago Azul. There are several tourist structures on the lake islands and on the banks, which help the local economy. The lake has a surface of 440 km² and a maximum depth of 160 meters. It can be reached by taking highways BR-352, GO-330 and GO-208. The hydroelectric plant operated by Cemig is located near the dam, which is 30 kilometers from Três Ranchos.

[edit] Climate

The climate is considered moist tropical with two well defined seasons: dry winter and rainy summer, with a maximum temperature between 18ºC and 23ºC. After the formation of the lake, according to data, the days have become hotter with the maximum going higher than 30ºC.