Santa Rosa de Goiás

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Santa Rosa de Goiás
State Goiás
Area: 170.9 km²
Population: 3,276 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation: 1,040m above sea level
Postcode (CEP): 75455-000
IBGE statistical microregion: Anápolis Microregion
Became a city: 1963
Distance to Goiânia: 88 km.
Website: none

Santa Rosa de Goiás is a small town and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil.

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[edit] Location

Santa Rosa is located 78 km. northwest of the regional center, Anápolis. It is approximately half the distance between Taquaral de Goiás and Petrolina de Goiás.

Neighboring municipalities: Taquaral de Goiás, Jaraguá, Jesúpolis, and Petrolina de Goiás, and Itauçu.

[edit] Political Information

  • Mayor: Sônia Aparecida Sandre Mariano (January 2005)
  • City council: 09
  • Eligible voters: 2,885 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic Information

  • Population density: 19.16 inhab/km² (2005)
  • Urban population: 2,297 (2000)
  • Rural population: 1,251 (2000)
  • Population growth: a loss of about 1,000 people since 1980

[edit] Economic Information

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

  • Industrial units: 1 (2005)
  • Commercial units: 22 (2005)
  • Dairy: none (22/05/2006)
  • Meat-packing plant: none (22/05/2006)
  • Financial institutions: none (01/06/2005)
  • Automobiles: 188 (2004)
  • Cattle herd: 24,580 head (4,250 milk cows) (2004)
  • Poultry: 19,000 head (2004)
  • Swine: 1,410 head (2004)
  • Main crops: pineapple, garlic, rice (240 hectares), bananas, beans, manioc, corn (700 hectares), tomatoes, and soybeans.

[edit] Education (2005)

  • Schools: 2
  • Classrooms: 19
  • Teachers: 47
  • Students: 927
  • Higher education: none
  • Adult literacy rate: 82.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

  • Hospitals: 1
  • Hospital beds: 23
  • Ambulatory clinics: 2
  • Doctors, nurses, dentists: 1, 1, 1 (2002)
  • Infant mortality rate: 26.83 (2000) (national average was 33.

[edit] Municipal Human Development Index

  • Life expectancy: 67.8
  • Adult literacy rate: 0.805
  • School attendance rate: 0.800
  • MHDI: 0.715
  • State ranking: 187 (out of 242 municipalities)
  • National ranking: 2,728 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

All data are from 2000

For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br

[edit] See also

[edit] Sources of Data

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