Uruaçu
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| Uruaçu | |
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| State | Goiás Goiás Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. The name Goiás comes from the name of an indigenous community... |
| Area: | 2,141.7 km² |
| Population: | 33,382 (IBGE 2007) |
| Elevation: | 520 m |
| Postcode (CEP): | 76400-000 |
| IBGE statistical microregion: | 004 Porangatu Microregion Porangatu Microregion The Porangatu Microregion is a statistical region created by IBGE in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. The most important city is Porangatu... |
| Became a city: | 1931 |
| Distance to Goiânia Goiânia -Climate:The city has a tropical wet and dry climate with an average temperature of . There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. Annual rainfall is around 1,520 mm.... : |
269 km |
| Website: | none |
Uruaçu is a small city and municipality
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
in north Goiás
Goiás
Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. The name Goiás comes from the name of an indigenous community...
state, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
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Geography
Uruaçu is located north of AnápolisAnápolis
Anápolis is the third largest city in the State of Goiás in Brazil. It lies in the center of a rich agricultural region and has become a leader in food processing and pharmaceutical plants.-Location and population:...
and Goiânia
Goiânia
-Climate:The city has a tropical wet and dry climate with an average temperature of . There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. Annual rainfall is around 1,520 mm....
on the important interstate highway BR-153, which links Brasília
Brasília
Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...
to Belém
Belém
Belém is a Brazilian city, the capital and largest city of state of Pará, in the country's north region. It is the entrance gate to the Amazon with a busy port, airport and bus/coach station...
. It is 269 km. from Goiânia and 244 km. from Brasília. It belongs to the Porangatu Microregion
Porangatu Microregion
The Porangatu Microregion is a statistical region created by IBGE in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. The most important city is Porangatu...
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Municipal boundaries are with:
- North: Nova Iguaçu de GoiásNova Iguaçu de GoiásNova Iguaçu de Goiás is a small town and municipality in north Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Nova Iguaçu de Goiás is located in the extreme north of the state and is 136 km from the regional center of Porangatu. Other towns nearby are Campinorte, 28 km. to the east; Alto Horizonte,...
and CampinorteCampinorteCampinorte is a small city and municipality in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 9,697 in a total area of 1,068 km².-Location:... - South: HidrolinaHidrolinaHidrolina is a small town and municipality in north-central Goiás, Brazil. The population was 4,157 and the area of the municipality was 580 km² .-Location:...
and Santa Rita do Novo DestinoSanta Rita do Novo DestinoSanta Rita do Novo Destino is a small town and municipality in northeastern Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Santa Rita do Novo Destino is 82 km. east of Ceres and 15 km. north of Goianésia. Highway connections from Goiânia are made by taking GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 /... - East: NiquelândiaNiquelândiaNiquelândia is a small city and municipality in northern Goiás state, Brazil. It is the largest municipality in the state in area and is an important producer of minerals.-Geography:...
- West: HidrolinaHidrolinaHidrolina is a small town and municipality in north-central Goiás, Brazil. The population was 4,157 and the area of the municipality was 580 km² .-Location:...
On the west the municipal boundary follows the Serra Dourada mountains, where the Passa Três river has its source and supplies the city with its drinking water. On the east the boundary is formed by the Serra da Mesa reservoir
Serra da Mesa Dam
The Serra da Mesa Dam, once known as Sao Felix, is an embankment dam on the Tocantins River near Minaçu in Goiás, Brazil. The dam serves an associated hydroelectric power plant with a 1,275 MW installed capacity...
(43 meters deep and 1,784 km² in area).
The climate is moist tropical, with maximum temperatures of 38 °C, minimums of 18 °C and an average of 28 °C.
History
The origin of this town was the Passa Três ranch acquired by the Fernandes family in 1910 and located in the municipality of Pilar de GoiásPilar de Goiás
Pilar de Goiás is a small town and municipality in north-central Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Pilar is located 252 kilometers north of the state capital, Goiânia in the Ceres Microregion. It is connected to the south of the state, with its main urban centers, by highway BR-153...
along the route used by muleteers and merchants from the south. In 1913 Coronel Gaspar donated lands to build a chapel dedicated to Saint Anne and the settlement was called Sant'Ana. In 1924 the settlement was raised to a district and in 1931 it became a municipality. In 1943 the name was changed to Uruaçu, which in Tupi-Guarani means "large bird". In 1948 Uruaçu lost the district of Porangatu, which became the municipality of Porangatu
Porangatu
Parangatu is a town in Goiás state, Brazil-Geography:Parangatu is in its own microregion, Porangatu Microregion, of 226,766 inhabitants in an area of 35.287 km²; 426 km from the state capital, Goiânia. This microregion serves as a nucleus for eighteen municipalities in the north of Goiás state...
, now the most important city in the region. in 1953 it lost the district of Amaro Leite, which became the municipality of Amaro Leite, later changed to Mara Rosa
Mara Rosa
Mara Rosa is a small town and municipality in north-central Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Mara Rosa is located 356 kilometers north of Goiânia in the Porangatu Microregion. It is 11 kilometers east of the Belém-Brasília highway, between the basins of the Araguaia River and the Tocantins River...
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Political Information and Demographics
In January 2005 the mayor was Marisa dos Santos Pereira Araújo. The city city council had 9 members and there were 23,435 eligible voters in 2007. The population density was 15.59 inhab/km² (2007). Urban population was 30,312 (2007) while rural population was 3,070 (2007). The town has lost about 1,000 people since 1980. There was a -0,11% growth rate for 1996/2007.The economy
The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.- Industrial units: 46 (2007)
- Commercial units: 411 (2007)
- Dairy: - Laticínios Morrinhos Ind. e Com. Ltda. - Associação do Médio Norte Goiano - ASNORTE. (22/05/2006)
- Financial institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A - Banco Itaú S.A. - CEF (08/2007)
- Automobiles: 4,689 (2007)
- Farms: 1,147
- Total agricultural Area: 152,573 hectares
- Permanent Planted Area: 1,768 hectares
- Temporary Planted Area: 13,144 hectares
- Natural Pasture: 88,380 hectares
- Woodland and Forest: 41,105 hectares
- Workers related to the farm owner: 2,335
- Workers not related to the farm owner: 765 (IBGE)
- Cattle herd: 104,000 head (2006)
- Main crops: rice (300 hectares), coconut (75 hectares), corn (600 hectares), and soybeans (9,500 hectares). (IBGE)
Health and education
In the educational sector there were 46 schools with 10,693 students in 2006. In higher education there was a campus of the UEG - Faculdade de Educação, Ciências e Letras de Uruaçu. The adult literacy rate was 85.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%). The town was served by 2 hospitals with 113 beds in 2007. The infant mortality rate was 27.33 (2000) (national average was 33.0).- Municipal Human Development IndexHuman Development IndexThe Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...
: 0.738 (The state ranking was 113 out of 242 municipalities in 2000 and the national ranking was 2,222 out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000. (Frigoletto)
- Seplan Economic Development Index: The ranking was 156 out of 246 municipalities. See Seplan
- Seplan Social Development Index: The ranking was 171 out of 246 municipalities. See Seplan