Porangatu
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| Porangatu | |
|---|---|
| State | Goiás |
| Area: | 4,820.4 km² |
| Population: | 40,307 (IBGE 2005) |
| Elevation: | 390 m above sea level |
| Postcode (CEP): | 76550-000 |
| Became a city: | 1948 |
| Distance to Goiânia: | 426 km. |
| Website: | none |
Porangatu is a small city and municipality in north Goiás state, Brazil. Porangatu is an important regional center in the north of the state and a large producer of milk and beef cattle.
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[edit] Geography
Parangatu is in its own microregion of 226,766 inhabitants in an area of 35, 287 km2; 426 km. from the state capital, Goiânia. This microregion serves as a nucleus for eighteen municipalities in the north of Goiás state. The municipal seat is just west of the important interstate highway BR-123, which connects Belém with Brasília and just south of the state line with the recently created state of Tocantins.
Important rivers are the Santa Tereza, Cana Brava, Ouro Pintado, Santa Maria and Gregório. The climate is hot, moist tropical, with frequent occurrences of a maximum of 40 °C. The average minimum is 21C, the maximum is 40 °C and the minimum is 21 °C. The elevation is 390 meters above sea level and the highest points are Serra da Sabina and Serra dos Picos.
[edit] Political information
- Mayor: José Osvaldo da Silva (January 2005)
- Eligible voters: 29,475 (April 2006)
- City council: 9 members
[edit] Demographic information
- Population density: 8.36 inhab/km² (2005)
- Urban population: 34,637(2003)
- Rural population: 5,307 (2003)
- Population growth or loss: a gain of about 5,500 people since 1980
[edit] Economic information
The economy is based on agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
Most of the economy is dependent on cattle raising and agriculture, but in recent years the region has attracted medium size industries. Porangatu is today the commercial center for the north of Goiás receiving people from all the neighboring region to buy its products. There is a tanning factory employing 90 persons and a furniture factory employing 80 persons. Public administration employed 1,080 people in 2003.
- Industrial units: 74 (2005), employing 696 workers in 2003
- Commercial units: 357 (2005), employing 1,765 workers in 2003
- Bank agencies: Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A. - CEF.
(June 2005)
- Dairy: - LACEL - Laticínios Ceres Ltda. - Agroindústria Camapum Ltda (22/05/2006)
- Meat packing plant: FRIRAL - Frigorífico Fronteiras Ltda.; - HBC Comércio e Representações Ltda. (22/05/2006)
- Motor vehicles: 3,661 automobiles (2004)
- Cattle herd: 310,000 head (2004)
- Poultry: 68,000 head (2004)
- Swine: 9,650 (2004)
- Dairy cows: 29,500 (2004)
- Main crops (2005): rice (16 km²), banana, beans (10 km²), manioc, soybeans (22.65 km²), and corn (16 km²).
[edit] Education (2005)
- Schools: 50
- Classrooms: 325
- Teachers: 654
- Students: 12,880
- Middle school enrollment: 2,320 students
- Higher education: Porangatu has a campus of the Universidade Estadual de Goiás with courses in the following areas: Biology, Mathematics, Geography, Humanities and Computer Science.[1]
- Adult literacy rate: 80.5% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
[edit] Health (2003)
- Hospitals: 6
- Hospital beds: 247
- Ambulatory clinics: 18
- Doctors, nurses, dentists: 81, 2, 15 (2002)
- Infant mortality rate: 32.75 (2000) (national average was 33.0).
[edit] Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index
- Life expectancy: 65.88
- Adult literacy rate: 0.853
- School attendance rate: 0.829
- MHDI: 0.761
- State ranking: 52 (out of 242 municipalities)
- National ranking: 1,562 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
Data are from 2000
For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br
