Santo Antônio da Barra

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Statistics
State:	Goiás
Micro-Region:	Southwest Goiás
Founded:	1993
Area:	451 km²
Population:	4,456 (2004)
Population density:	9.88/km²
Elevation:	650 m
Postal code:	75395-xxx
Website:	none
Politics
Mayor:	Osvaldo Fonseca de Almeida

Santo Antônio da Barra is a municipality in southwest Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 4,544 (2005 estimate) in a total area of 451.6 km². The elevation of the municipal seat is 650 meters. Santo Antônio is a large producer of poultry.

Santo Antônio is 190 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia and is part of the Southwest Goiás Microregion. The highway connection from Goiânia is BR-060.

1 Municipal boundaries
2 Historical population
3 Geographical information
4 Political information
5 Demographic information
6 Economic information
7 Education (2005)
8 Health (2003)
9 History
10 Municipal Human Development Index
11 See also
12 Sources of data
13 External links

[edit] Municipal boundaries

It has boundaries with the following municipalities:

north: Paraúna
south: Santa Helena de Goiás
east: Acreúna
west: Rio Verde

[edit] Historical population

Year	Population	Change	Density
2001	4,052	-	8.98/km²
2004	4,456	404/9.97%	9.88/km²

[edit] Geographical information

The climate is moist tropical with high night-time temperatures. The rainy season is from October to March and the dry season is from April to September. Because of the hot and dry climate, the main vegetation is sparse cerrado. In the valleys there are still forests with sucupira, aroeira, pindaíba and other species of trees.

Santo Antônio da Barra is bathed by a vast river network, formed by the Verdão, which separates the municipality from Acreúna and Paraúna; Verdinho, on the border with Rio Verde; and Ribeirão Lage, which forms the boundary with Santa Helena de Goiás.

Electric energy is furnished by the Hidrelétrica de Cachoeira Dourada, on the Paranaíba.

[edit] Political information

Mayor: Osvaldo Fonseca de Almeida (January 2005)
City council: 09
Eligible voters: 3,769 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic information

Population density: 10.06 inhab/km² (2005)
Urban population: 3,291 (2000)
Rural population: 761 (2000)
Population growth: a gain of about 600 people since 1996

[edit] Economic information

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries. The GDP of 23 million Reais in 2002 was provided by agriculture (15 million), industry (1 million), and services (7 million).

Industrial units: 3 (2005)
Commercial units: 31 (2005)
Dairy: none (22/05/2006)
Meat-packing plant: none (22/05/2006)
Financial institutions: none (01/06/2005)
Automobiles: 195 (2004)
Cattle herd: 23,000 head (3,000 milk cows) (2004)
Poultry: 856,600 head (2004)
Swine: 27,630 head (2004)
Main crops: cotton (22 km²), rice, coconuts, beans, manioc, corn, tomatoes, and soybeans (100 km²).

[edit] Education (2005)

Schools: 5
Classrooms: 30
Teachers: 65
Students: 1,408
Higher education: none
Adult literacy rate: 77.1% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

Hospitals: 0
Hospital beds: 0
Ambulatory clinics: 1
Doctors, nurses, dentists: 4, 1, 2 (2002)
Infant mortality rate: 9.92 (2000) (national average was 33.0.

[edit] History

Occupation of the region began in 1951 when Joaquim Domingos da Silva and his wife Alventina Borges da Silva fixed a cross in devotion to Santo Antônio. In 1963 the settlement was elevated to the status of district of Rio Verde The first municipal school, Escola Municipal Antônio Gouvêia de Morais, was built in 1976 with the secondary school, Irmãos Messias da Costa, being built in 1983. Finally, after a plebiscite, the district was emancipated and became a municipality in 1992.