São João d'Aliança

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São João d'Aliança
State	Goiás
Area:	3,327.3 km²
Population:	7,751 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation:	986 m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	73760-000
IBGE statistical microregion:	Chapada dos Veadeiros Microregion
Became a city:	1953
Distance to Goiânia:	357 km.
Website:	none

São João d'Aliança is a small town and municipality in northeastern Goiás state, Brazil. São João is a gateway to the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park.

The name is sometimes written as São João D'Aliança.

1 Location
2 Political information
3 Demographic information
4 Economic information
5 Education (2005)
6 Health (2003)
7 Tourism
8 History
9 Human Development Index
10 See also
11 Sources of data

[edit] Location

São João is located north of Brasília on state highway G0-118, which begins near Planaltina and connects with Alto Paraíso de Goiás. It is part of the Chapada dos Veadeiros Microregion.

The distance to the state capital, Goiânia is 357 km. Highway connections from Goiânia are made by BR-153 / Anápolis / BR-060 / Alexânia / Planaltina (DF) / GO-430 / Planaltina de Goiás (GO) / GO-118 / BR-010 /. For all the distances in Goiás see Seplan

Neighboring municipalities are:

[edit] Political information

Mayor: Vilmar Ferreira de Araújo (January 2005)
City council: 09 members
Eligible voters: 5,529 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic information

Population density: 2.33 inhab/km² (2005)
Urban population: 4,188 (2000)
Rural population: 2,548 (2000)
Population growth: a gain of about 3,400 people since 1980

[edit] Economic information

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries. The soils, altitude and climate are considered favorable for planting corn, which occupies 76 km². Farmers harvest 15,000 sacks of corn per square kilometre, which is twice the national average. Usually corn is rotated with soybeans.

In 2002 the GDP was 38.0 million Reais. By sectors agriculture produced 23 million Reais, industry 2 million Reais, and services 12 million Reais. The municipality was ranked 109 in 2002 out of 246 municipalities.

Industrial units: 6 (2005)
Commercial units: 67 (2005)
Dairy: none (22/05/2006)
Meat-packing plant: none (22/05/2006)
Financial institutions: Banco Itaú S.A (01/06/2005)
Automobiles: 445 (2004)
Cattle herd: 55,500 head (3,200 milk cows) (2004)
Poultry: 23,800 head (2004)
Swine: 2,270 head (2004)
Main crops: rice (13 km²), bananas, coffee, sugarcane, beans (29 km²), manioc, corn (76 km²), tomatoes, and soybeans (160 km²).

[edit] Education (2005)

Schools: 19
Classrooms: 72
Teachers: 130
Students: 2,353
Higher education: none
Adult literacy rate: 84.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

Hospitals: 1
Hospital beds: 17
Ambulatory clinics: 4
Doctors, nurses, dentists: 12, 4, 2 (2002)
Infant mortality rate: 26.56 (2000) (national average was 33.

[edit] Tourism

Tourism has become important in recent years with the proximity of the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. There are several waterfalls in the region, with the Cachoeira Extrema or Label being the highest: 130 meters of direct fall. It is still quite inaccessible and it is necessary to walk three hours to reach it. The vegetation and fauna are very rich in the area. In the cerrado there are a minimum of 837 species of birds and 161 species of mammals.

[edit] History

São João began as a farm in the nineteenth century. In 1910, it was Arraial Capetinga, consisting of same grass huts, two houses covered with tiles, and a chapel dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. In 1931 it became a municipality only to revert to a district of Formosa in 1939. Finally in 1953 it was re-established as a municipality. With the construction of Brasília and a relative proximity to that important city, farmers from the south began to arrive and buy inexpensive land to plant soybeans.