Santa Terezinha de Goiás explained

Official Name:	Santa Terezinha de Goiás
Settlement Type:	Municipality
Pushpin Map:	Brazil
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location in Brazil
Coordinates:	-14.4333°N -49.6956°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Brazil
Subdivision Type1:	Region
Subdivision Name1:	Central-West
Subdivision Type2:	State
Subdivision Name2:	Goiás
Subdivision Type3:	Mesoregion
Subdivision Type4:	Microregion
Subdivision Name4:	Porangatu Microregion
Subdivision Type5:	Metrop. region
Leader Title:	Mayor
Elevation M:	409
Area Total Km2:	1202.2
Population Total:	8,562
Population As Of:	2020 ^[1]
Population Density Km2:	auto
Timezone1:	BRT
Utc Offset1:	-3
Postal Code Type:	Postal code
Postal Code:	76500-000
Area Code Type:	Area code

Santa Terezinha de Goiás is a municipality in north Goiás state, Brazil. Santa Terezinha is sometimes written as "Santa Teresinha".

Location

Santa Terezinha is in the extreme north of the state, 174 km. southwest of Porangatu. It is 66 km. west of the important BR-153 highway.

Highway connections from Goiânia are made by GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 / Jaraguá / Rianápolis / Rialma / GO-336 / Itapaci / GO-154 / Pilar de Goiás.

Santa Terezinha de Goiás is bordered by the following municipalities:

north: Campos Verdes de Goiás and Mara Rosa
- - south: Guarinos east: Uruaçu west: Crixás

Political information

Mayor: Vitalino da Silva Muniz (January 2005)
City council: 09
Eligible voters: 8,998 (December/2007)

Demographics

Population density: 9.61 inhabitants/km² (2007)
Urban population: 8,673 (2007)
Rural population: 2,885 (2007)
Population change: 1.37% 1996/2007

The economy

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

Industrial units: 18 (2007)
Retail units: 111 (2007), employing 275 workers in 2005
Financial institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. - Bradesco S.A. (01/06/2005)
Automobiles: 567 (2007)

Agricultural data (2006)

Farms: 691
Total agricultural area: 66,678 hectares
Permanent planted area: 2,297 hectares
Temporary planted area: 3,441 hectares
Natural pasture: 43,488 hectares
Woodland and forest: 15,177 hectares
Workers related to the farm owner: 1,609
Workers not related to the farm owner: 188 (IBGE)
Cattle herd: 77,000 head (2006)
Main crops: rice (280 hectares), bananas, beans, manioc, corn (900 hectares), palm hearts and coconut

Education

Schools: 11 with 3,503 students
Higher education: campus of the Estadual de Goiás
Adult literacy rate: 83.0% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health

Hospitals: 1
Hospital beds: 43
Ambulatory clinics: 5
Infant mortality rate: 27.56 (2000) (national average was 33.

Municipal Human Development Index

MHDI: .721
State ranking: 171 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
National ranking: 2,607 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 200

Seplan Economic Development IndexThe ranking was 168 out of 246 municipalities.^[2]

Seplan Social Development IndexThe ranking was 101 out of 246 municipalities.^[3]

See also

References

Frigoletto

Notes and References