Santo Antônio do Descoberto

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Santo Antônio do Descoberto
State	Goiás
Area:	938.3 km²
Population:	74,867 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation:	912m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	72900-000
IBGE statistical microregion:	Entorno de Brasília
Became a city:	1982
Distance to Goiânia:	174 km.
Website:	none

Santo Antônio do Descoberto is a small city and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. It is a suburb of Brasília that was a sleepy country hamlet until the population exploded in the 1970's due to the construction of the national capital.

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

[edit] Location

Santo Antônio do Descoberto is located in the microregion called Entorno de Brasília, the area of Goiás that surrounds the federal capital. It is 174 km. from the state capital of Goiânia.

Municipal boundaries are with:

North: Águas Lindas de Goiás
South: Luziânia
East: Cocalzinho de Goiás, Corumbá, and Alexânia
West: Brasília

[edit] Political Information

Mayor: Moacir Machado (January 2005)
City council: 10 members
Eligible voters: 33,249 (April/2006)

[edit] Demographic Information

Population density: 79.79 inhab/km² (2005)
Urban population: 59,703 (2003)
Rural population: 3,488 (2003)
Population growth: a gain of about 39,000 people since 1991

[edit] Economic Information

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

Industrial units: 33 (2005)
Commercial units: 185 (2005)
Dairy: (22/05/2006)
Financial institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A. (01/06/2005)
Automobiles: 1,310 (2004)
Cattle herd: 29,000 head (3,100 milking cows)
Poultry: 83,000
Swine: 2,300
Main crops: rice, sugarcane, beans, bananas, oranges, manioc, and corn (1,000 hectares)

[edit] Education (2005)

Schools: 41
Classrooms: 320
Teachers: 565
Students: 18,859
Higher education: Pólo Universitário da UEG.
Adult literacy rate: 85.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

[edit] Health (2003)

Hospitals: 3
Hospital beds: 101
Ambulatory clinics: 20
Doctors, nurses, dentists: 34, 16, 7 (2002)
Infant mortality rate: 26.65 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

[edit] Tourism

The municipality attracts visitors to its waterfalls, caves and springs of crystal-clear water. Two of the water falls, lying 5 kilometers from the town, are surrounded by dense tropical vegetation, contrasting with the relatively dry cerrado nearby.

Ten kilometers from the town is Cidade Eclética, a nucleus of people who make up a universal fraternity, a spiritualist community founded by Oceano de Sá, known as Mestre Yokaanam.

The traditional festival of Santo Antônio do Descoberto is in homage to the patron saint and takes place on 13 June. It attracts thousands of pilgrims and followers of the saint and there are stands, processions and music.