Paraúna

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Paraúna is a small town and municipality in southwestern Goiás state, Brazil. It has strange rock formations and is a large producer of cotton and soybeans.

  • Population (2005): 11,462
  • Municipal area (2002): 3,781.2 km²
  • Elevation: 721 meters
  • Became a municipality: 1934
  • Postal code: 75980-000

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[edit] Location

Paraúna is located in the Vale do Rio dos Bois Microregion, 160 kilometers from the state capital of Goiânia.

Highway connections with Goiânia are made by BR-060 / Abadia de Goiás / Guapó / Indiara / GO-320 / Jandaia. [1]

Municipal boundaries:

[edit] Climate

The climate is tropical, typical of medium elevations, with the dry period of the year occurring between July and October and the wet period occurring between November and March. The average elevation is 800 meters above sea level.

[edit] Political Information

  • Mayor: Sebastião Ferro de Moraes (January 2005)
  • City council: 9
  • Eligible voters: 8,060 (April 2006)

[edit] Demographic information

  • Population density: 3.03 inhab/km² (2005)
  • Urban population: 7,896 >(2003)
  • Rural population: 3,247 (2003)
  • Population growth or loss: a loss of about 2,000 people since 1980

[edit] Economic information

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

  • Industrial units: 9 (2005), employing 87 workers in 2003
  • Commercial units: 70 (2005), employing 355 workers in 2003
  • Bank agencies: Banco Itaú S.A. - Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A.
  • Dairies: Paraúna Indústria e Comércio de Laticínios Ltda. - Lactouna Ind. e Com. de Leite e Derivados Ltda
  • Motor vehicles: 689 (2004)
  • Cattle herd: 18,650 head (2004)
  • Poultry: 86,550 (2004)
  • Swine: 11,060 (20049
  • Dairy cows: 16,350 (2004)
  • Main crops (2005): cotton (259.6 km²), rice (18 km²), coffee, sugarcane, manioc, corn (38 km²), and soybeans (720 km²).

[edit] Education (2005)

  • Schools: 16
  • Classrooms: 89
  • Teachers: 136
  • Students: 3,443
  • Middle school enrollment: 466 students
  • Higher education: none
  • Adult literacy rate: 85.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

  • Hospitals: 2
  • Hospital beds: 84
  • Ambulatory clinics: 7
  • Doctors, nurses, dentists: 18, 3, 5 (2002)
  • Infant mortality rate: 25.29 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

[edit] Income distribution (2000)

  • Households: 3,136
  • Households declaring no income: 132
  • Households declaring income of less than 1 minimum salary: 936
  • Between 1 and 2 minimum salaries: 1,055
  • Between 2 and 3 minimum salaries: 349
  • Between 3 and 5 minimum salaries: 263
  • Between 5 and 10 minimum salaries: 196
  • Between 10 and 15 minimum salaries: 64
  • Between 15 and 20 minimum salaries: 58
  • Between 20 and 30 minimum salaries: 29
  • More than 30 minimum salaries: 54

[edit] Tourism

The municipality is one of the main tourist attractions of the state of Goiás. In the Serra do Caiapó immense stone walls extend for several kilometers. Inscriptions on the stone indicate to some the existence of a pre-Columbian civilization but to others the rocks are natural formations sculpted by the wind or the result of shaping caused by waves when this region was under the sea. Visitors describe a city of stone, with buildings, objects, and animals carved out by the forces of mother nature.

The Ecological Park of Paraúna is one of the most visited points of ecological tourism in the region. The park, which is being organized, has the mission of protecting the natural beauty of the region, such as the sandstone formations, caverns and a subterranean river.

The first name of the settlement, which appeared in the beginning of the nineteenth century, was Bota Fumaça (Fire Belcher) and then became São José do Turvo, due to the Turvo River. The present name, given in 1930, is of tupi-guarani origen. "Para" means river and "Una" means black. The town was elevated to the condition of municipality in 1934.

[edit] Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index

  • Life expectancy: 68.4
  • Adult literacy rate: 0.834
  • School attendance rate: 0.766
  • MHDI: 0.742
  • State ranking: 99 (out of 242 municipalities)
  • National ranking: 2,092 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

Data are from 2000

For the complete list see Frigoletto.com

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