Santa Cruz de Goiás

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Santa Cruz de Goiás
State	Goiás
Area:	1,108.9 km²
Population:	3,601 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation:	754m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	75220-000
IBGE statistical microregion:	Pires do Rio Microregion
Became a city:	1947
Distance to Goiânia:	121 km.
Website:	none

Santa Cruz de Goiás is a small town and municipality in southeast Goiás state, Brazil.

1 Geography
2 Political Information
3 Demographic Information
4 Economic Information
5 Education (2005)
6 Health (2003)
7 History
8 Human Development Index
9 See also
10 Sources of Data

[edit] Geography

Santa Cruz is located in the southeastern part of the state, 33 km. west of regional center, Pires do Rio. The Rio dos Bois, a tributary of the Corumbá River flows from north to south through the municipality. It has boundaries with Pires do Rio, Palmelo, Cristianópolis, Caldas Novas and Piracanjuba. It is 121 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia and is connected by BR-352 / Bela Vista de Goiás / Cristianópolis / GO-020. [1]

The municipality is bathed by the Rio dos Bois, Rio do Peixe, córregos Manoel Duarte, Muquém, Buriti, Pedra de Amolar, Brumadinho, Caiapó, Pirapitinga, Fundo, Mato Virgem, Água Suja, São Benedito, Córrego da Chuva, Sapé, Dantas, and by the Ribeirão Brumado. In topography there is the Serra do Rio do Peixe, the hills of Clemente, Queiroz, Cuscuzeiro, Dois Irmãos, Pertapé, Serra dos Macacos, Cabeça de Mel and Capão Bonito. The climate is tropical humid.

[edit] Political Information

Mayor: Esley Augusto Damaso (January 2005)
City council: 09
Eligible voters: 2,757 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic Information

Population density: 3.25 inhab/km² (2005)
Urban population: 1,002 (2003)
Rural population: 2,532 (2003)
Population growth: a loss of about 500 people since 1980

[edit] Economic Information

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

Industrial units: 3 (2005)
Commercial units: 12 (2005)
Dairy: (22/05/2006)
Financial institutions: (01/06/2005)
Motor vehicles: 130 (2004)
Cattle herd: 67,000 head (10,000 milk cows)
Poultry: 179,000
Swine: 4,490
Main crops: rice (300 hectares), beans, manioc, coffee, bananas, soybeans (12,000 hectares) and corn (700)

[edit] Education (2005)

Schools: 3
Classrooms: 26
Teachers: 42
Students: 782
Middle schools enrollment: 113
Higher education: none
Adult literacy rate: 87.5% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

Hospitals: 1
Hospital beds: 14
Ambulatory clinics: 3
Doctors, nurses, dentists: 7, 2, 2 (2002)
Infant mortality rate: 14.0 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

[edit] History

Unlike many of the municipalities in Goiás, Santa Cruz has is origins in the 18th century, when muledrivers in 1721 on their way to the mines of Cuiabá discovered gold in the region. A cross was raised and the arraial of Santa Cruz was founded in 1729. Later when the territory was divided in two Santa Cruz was the center of a julgado, which was almost the size of Portugal. In 1833 it was raised to the status of a municipality.

The first railroad arrived 28 kilometers away in 1914 and the station was called Pires do Rio, which later became the most important city of the region.

With attractive landscapes around the city, Santa Cruz has rivers and waterfalls that promise future touristic development.