Santa Rita do Araguaia
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Santa Rita do Araguaia is a municipality in southwestern Goiás state, Brazil.
Location
Santa Rita is located on the
Municipal boundaries are with:
- north and west: Mato Grosso
- south and west: Mineiros
History
The origin of Santa Rita do Araguaia, located on the right bank of the Rio Araguaia, opposite the city of Alto Araguaia in Mato Grosso, was the Araguaia ranch, bought in 1854 by José Manoel Vilela. He reserved a large area for a settlement called Santa Rita dos Impossíveis. Later the name was changed to Santa Rita do Araguaia. In 1911 it became a district in the municipality of Mineiros. In 1943 the name was changed to "Ivapé", an Indigenous word meaning "road of fruit". In 1953 the town became a municipality with its present name.
Political and Demographic Information
- Mayor: Luzia Ferreira Costa e Santos (January 2005)
- City council: 09
- Eligible voters: 3,674 (2007)
- Population density: 4.31 inhabitants/km2 (2005)
- Urban population: 5,146 (2007)
- Rural population: 727 (2007)
- Geometric Growth Rate: 2.07% for 2000/2007
Economic Information
The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
- Industrial units: 2 (2007)
- Commercial units: 64 (2007)
- Financial institutions: 01 branch of Bradesco S.A. (May/2006)
- Automobiles: 653 (2007)
- Cattle herd: 53,500 head (4,900 milk cows)
- Main crops: rice, sugarcane, bananas, corn (3,550 hectares), and soybeans (5,000).
Education (2006) and Health (2007)
- Schools: 5 with 1,737 students
- Higher education: none
- Adult literacy rate: 85.9% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
- Hospitals: 0
- Hospital beds: 0
- Ambulatory clinics: 1
- Infant mortality rate: 20.02 (2000) (national average was 33.0)
Municipal Human Development Index
- MHDI: 0.756
- Ranking in the state: 65 out of 242 municipalities
- National ranking: 1706 out of 5507 municipalities
Data are from 2000
For the complete list see Frigoletto.com
See also
- List of municipalities in Goiás
- Microregions of Goiás
References
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