Panamá, Goiás

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

  • Population (2005): 2,948
  • Area (2002): 433.7 km²
  • Elevation: 733 meters
  • Became a city: 1952
  • Postal code: 75580-000

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[edit] Location

Panamá is located in the Meia Ponte Microregion and is about 25 kilometers north of the border with the state of Minas Gerais. It is a short distance west of the important BR-153 highway which links São Paulo to Belém. Panamá is 26 kilometers south of Goiatuba and 25 kilometers from Itumbiara. The distance to Goiânia is 188 km.

Neighboring municipalities are:

[edit] Political Information

  • Mayor: Maria Lucimar Faustina de Abreu (January 2005)
  • City council: 9
  • Eligible voters: 2,206 (April 2006)

[edit] Demographic Information

  • Population density: 6.8 inhab/km² (2005)
  • Urban population: 2,019 >(2003)
  • Rural population: 842 (2003)
  • Population growth: a gain of about 80 people since 1980

[edit] Economic Information

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

  • Industrial units: 2 (2005)
  • Commercial units: 22 (2005)
  • Motor vehicles: 125 (2004)
  • Cattle herd: 26,500 head (2004)
  • Poultry: 13,160 (2004)
  • Swine: 2,030 (20049
  • Dairy cows: 5,800 (2004)
  • Main crops (2005): cotton (2,600 hectares), rice (1,050 hectares), sugarcane, oranges, manioc, corn, and soybeans (4,500 hectares).

[edit] Education (2005)

  • Schools: 3
  • Classrooms: 21
  • Teachers: 38
  • Students: 859
  • Middle schools and students: 1 with 188 students
  • Higher education: none
  • Adult literacy rate: 81.9% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

  • Hospitals: 0
  • Hospital beds: 0
  • Ambulatory clinics: 1
  • Doctors, nurses, dentists: 4,1,1 (2002)
  • Infant mortality rate: 23.05 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

[edit] Income distribution (2000)

  • Households: 884
  • Households declaring no income: 83
  • Households declaring income of less than 1 minimum salary: 280
  • Between 1 and 2 minimum salaries: 283
  • Between 2 and 3 minimum salaries: 86
  • Between 3 and 5 minimum salaries: 73
  • Between 5 and 10 minimum salaries: 58
  • Between 10 and 15 minimum salaries: 7
  • Between 15 and 20 minimum salaries: 7
  • Between 20 and 30 minimum salaries: 4
  • More than 30 minimum salaries: 3

The United Nations Human Development Index (2000) ranked Panamá 131 out of 242 municipalities in the state of Goiás with a score of 0.733.

For the complete list see Frigoletto

[edit] See also

List of municipalities in Goiás

[edit] Sources of Data

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