Porangatu

Porangatu
State	Goiás
Area:	4,820.4 km²
Population:	40,307 (IBGE 2005)
Elevation:	390 m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	76550-000
Became a city:	1948
Distance to Goiânia:	426 km.
Website:	none

Porangatu is a small city and municipality in north Goiás state, Brazil. Porangatu is an important regional center in the north of the state and a large producer of milk and beef cattle.

Geography

Parangatu is in its own 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. The municipal seat is just west of the important interstate highway BR-123, which connects Belém with Brasília and just south of the state line with the recently created state of Tocantins.

Important rivers are the Santa Tereza, Cana Brava, Ouro Pintado, Santa Maria and Gregório. The climate is hot, moist tropical, with frequent occurrences of a maximum of 40 °C. The average minimum is 21C, the maximum is 40 °C and the minimum is 21 °C. The elevation is 390 meters above sea level and the highest points are Serra da Sabina and Serra dos Picos.

Political information

Mayor: José Osvaldo da Silva (January 2005)
Eligible voters: 29,475 (April 2006)
City council: 9 members

Demographic information

Population density: 8.36 inhab/km² (2005)
Urban population: 34,637(2003)
Rural population: 5,307 (2003)
Population growth or loss: a gain of about 5,500 people since 1980

Economic information

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

Most of the economy is dependent on cattle raising and agriculture, but in recent years the region has attracted medium size industries. Porangatu is today the commercial center for the north of Goiás receiving people from all the neighboring region to buy its products. There is a tanning factory employing 90 persons and a furniture factory employing 80 persons. Public administration employed 1,080 people in 2003.

Industrial units: 74 (2005), employing 696 workers in 2003
Commercial units: 357 (2005), employing 1,765 workers in 2003
Bank agencies: Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A. - CEF.

(June 2005)

Dairy: - LACEL - Laticínios Ceres Ltda. - Agroindústria Camapum Ltda (22/05/2006)
Meat packing plant: FRIRAL - Frigorífico Fronteiras Ltda.; - HBC Comércio e Representações Ltda. (22/05/2006)
Motor vehicles: 3,661 automobiles (2004)
Cattle herd: 310,000 head (2004)
Poultry: 68,000 head (2004)
Swine: 9,650 (2004)
Dairy cows: 29,500 (2004)
Main crops (2005): rice (16 km²), banana, beans (10 km²), manioc, soybeans (22.65 km²), and corn (16 km²).

Education (2005)

Schools: 50
Classrooms: 325
Teachers: 654
Students: 12,880
Middle school enrollment: 2,320 students
Higher education: Porangatu has a campus of the Universidade Estadual de Goiás with courses in the following areas: Biology, Mathematics, Geography, Humanities and Computer Science.[1]
Adult literacy rate: 80.5% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health (2003)

Hospitals: 6
Hospital beds: 247
Ambulatory clinics: 18
Doctors, nurses, dentists: 81, 2, 15 (2002)
Infant mortality rate: 32.75 (2000) (national average was 33.0).

Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index

Life expectancy: 65.88
Adult literacy rate: 0.853
School attendance rate: 0.829
MHDI: 0.761
State ranking: 52 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking: 1,562 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

Data are from 2000

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