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Varjão
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:	519 km²
Population:	3,649 (IBGE 2007)
Elevation:	609 m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	75355-000
Became a city:	1958
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.... :	77 km.
IBGE statistical microregion:	Vale do Rio dos Bois
Website:	n/a

Varjão is a small town

Town

A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size a settlement must be in order to be called a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world, so that, for example, many American "small towns" seem to British people to be no more than villages, while...

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 western 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...

.

Geography and Demographics

Varjão is located 77 km. southwest of 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....

and is 26 km. southeast of Cezarina

Cezarina

Cezarina is a municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil.-Location and Communications:Cezarina belongs to the Vale do Rio dos Bois statistical micro-region. It has municipal boundaries with:*north: Palmeiras de Goiás*south: Edealina*east: Varjão...

. Highway connections from Goiânia

Goiânia

are made by BR-060/Abadia de Goiás

Abadia de Goiás

Abadia de Goiás is a small town and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil, located on the western edge of the Goiânia metropolitan area.-Geographical Data:The distance to Goiânia is 27 km...

/Guapó

Guapó

Guapó is a small town and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 13,586 and the total area of the municipality was 517.0 km² .Guapó is part of the Goiânia Microregion...

/GO-413. Aragoiânia

Aragoiânia

Aragoiânia is a small town and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 7,243 in a total area of 219.5 km²....

, Cezarina

Cezarina

, Indiara

Indiara

Indiara is a small city and municipality in central-south Goiás state, Brazil. Indiara is a large producer of soybeans and cotton.-Location:Indiara is located in the Vale do Rio dos Bois and has municipal boundaries with:*north: Palmeiras de Goiás...

, Mairipotaba

Mairipotaba

Mairipotaba is a small town and municipality, in south Goiás state, Brazil.-Location and Municipal boundaries:Mairipotaba is located in the Meia Ponte Microregion about 85 kilometers directly south of the state capital, Goiânia. It has highway connections with Varjão, 36 kilometers to the north,...

are adjacent to Varjão. Its postcode (CEP) is 75355-000, and its IBGE statistical microregion is 014 Vale do Rio dos Bois.

As of 2007, Varjão's urban population was 2,192 and its rural population was 1,457. Its population density is 7.03 inhab/km² (2007). See Sepin for the complete list of distances.

Government

Eustáquio Ricardo de Souza is Varjão's mayor (as of January 2005), and the city council has nine members. There are 3,022 eligible voters (as of April 2006).

Economy

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

Industrial units: 1 (2007)
Commercial units: 38 (2007)
Motor vehicles: 420 (2007), which gave a ratio of 9 inhabitants for each motor vehicle
Cattle herd: 48,000 head (7,210 milk cows) (2006)
Poultry: 19,300 head (2006)
Swine: 3,450 head (2006)
Main crops: rice (200 hectares), sugarcane, oranges, beans, manioc, corn (600 hectares), and soybeans. (Sepin)

Health and education

In 2006, the 1,141 students in Varjão were served by four schools, with a total of 22 classrooms and 27 teachers. In 2000, its school attendance rate was 0.806. There are no higher education facilities. Varjão's adult literacy rate was 83.0% in 2000, just below the national average of 86.4%.

In 2003, there were no hospitals and two ambulatory clinics in Varjão. In 2002, two doctors, one nurse, and one dentist lived in the town. The town's infant mortality rate 22.64 (2000) is well below the national average of 33.0. In 2000, the town's life expectancy was 69.4.

The score on the Municipal Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The 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...

was 0.729 in 2000, ranking it at 149 out of 242 municipalities in the state of 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...

and 2,456 out of 5,507 municipalities in Brazil overall.

See also

List of municipalities in Goiás
Microregions of Goiás

References

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