Santa Helena de Goiás
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| Santa Helena de Goiás | |
|---|---|
| State | Goiás |
| Area: | 1,127.8 km² |
| Population: | 35,424 (IBGE 2005) |
| Elevation: | 562m above sea level |
| Postcode (CEP): | 75920-000 |
| IBGE statistical microregion: | 013 Southwest Goiás Microregion |
| Became a city: | 1948 |
| Distance to Goiânia: | 196 km. |
| Website: | Câmara Municipal |
Santa Helena de Goiás is a small city and municipality in southwestern Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of corn, sugarcane, soybeans, and poultry.
Santa Helena is located in the Southwest Goiás Microregion, 31 kilometers east of the important city of Rio Verde. It is 32 kilometers south of the BR-060 highway, which links Rio Verde to Goiânia. The distance to the state capital, Goiânia, is 195 km.
Municipal boundaries are with:
- north: Santo Antônio da Barra
- south: Rio Verde and Maurilândia
- east: Turvelândia
- west: Rio Verde
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[edit] Political Information
- Mayor: Raquel Mendes Vieira Rodrigues (January 2005)
- City council: 09
- Eligible voters: 28,319 (April/2006)
[edit] Demographic Information
- Population density: 31.41 inhab/km² (2005)
- Urban population: 32,349 (2000)
- Rural population: 2,196 (2000)
- Population growth: a gain of about 9,000 people since 1980
[edit] Economic Information
The economy is based on mechanized agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
- Industrial units: 53 (2005), employing 959 workers in 2003.
- Commercial units: 374 (2005), employing 1,632 workers in 2003.
- Dairy: Parmalat Brasil S/A - Indústria de Alimentos (22/05/2006)
- Meat-packing plant: none
- Destillery: Usina Santa Helena de Açúcar e de Álcool S/A
- Financial institutions: 5 bank branches (01/06/2005)
- Automobiles: 3,995 (2004)
- Cattle herd: 51,000 head (7,000 milk cows)
- Poultry: 325,500
- Swine: 22,000
- Main crops: cotton, peanuts, rice, sugarcane (23,424 hectares), bananas, sesame seeds, corn (4,000 hectares), and soybeans (46,000 hectares).
[edit] Education (2005)
- Schools: 24
- Classrooms: 183
- Teachers: 393
- Students: 10,143
- Higher education: UEG - Falculdade de Educação, Ciências e Letras de Santa Helena de Goiás. This is a campus of the Universidade do Estado de Goiás, which was inaugurated in 1999. It offers courses in Agrobusiness Administration, Mathematics, and Information Systems.[1]
- Adult literacy rate: 84.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
[edit] Health (2003)
- Hospitals: 2
- Hospital beds: 70
- Ambulatory clinics: 8
- Doctors, nurses, dentists: 48, 22, 2 (2002)
- Infant mortality rate: 25.03 (2000) (national average was 33.0)
Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index
- Life expectancy: 68.55
- Adult literacy rate: 0.822
- School attendance rate: 0.878
- MHDI: 0.747
- State ranking: 84 (out of 242 municipalities)
- National ranking: 1,973 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
All data are from 2000
For the complete list see Frigoletto.com
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