PIRANHAS, GOIáS

'Piranhas' is a small town and municipality in western Goiás state, Brazil. It is a large producer of milk and has a large herd of cattle.

★ Population: 11,959 (2005 estimate)

★ Area: 2,047.7 km² (2002)

★ Elevation: 389

★ Became a municipality: 1953

★ Microregion: Aragarças Microregion

★ Postal code: 76230-000

Contents

Location

Political Information

Demographic Information

Economic Information

Education (2005)

Health (2003)

Income distribution (2000)

Tourism

★ Life expectancy: 67.3 ★ Literacy rate: .829 ★ School attendance rate: .905 ★ MHDI: 0.773 ★ Ranking in state: 118/245 ★ National ranking: 2249/5507 ''All data are from 2000''

Sources of Data

Location

Piranhas is located on the Piranhas River and is served by highways: BR-158, which connects Jataí to Aragarças; and GO-060, which connects Piranhas to Iporá.
The distance to the state capital, Goiânia, is 321 km. Highway connections are made by GO-060 / Trindade / Nazário / São Luís de Montes Belos / Israelândia / Iporá / Arenópolis. For the complete list see Seplan
Municipal boundaries are with:

★ north and west: Bom Jardim de Goiás

★ east: Arenópolis

★ south: Palestina de Goiás and Doverlândia

Political Information

★ Mayor: Eurídes Maria Rosa Naves (January 2005)

★ Votes in last election: 3,860 (04/10/2004)

★ Political party: COLIGAÇÃO ESPERANÇA (PP / PT / PFL / PSB / PC do B)

★ City council: 9

★ Eligible voters: 9,104 (April 2006)

Demographic Information

★ Population density: 5.84 inhab/km² (2005)

★ Urban population: 9,875(2003)

★ Rural population: 2,251 (2003)

★ Population growth or loss: a loss of about 4,000 people since 1980

Economic Information

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

★ Industrial units: 21 (2005)

★ Commercial units: 125 (2005)

★ Bank agencies: Banco do Brasil S.A. - BRADESCO S.A. - Banco Itaú S.A.
(June 2005)

★ Dairy: Maroca Indústria de Laticínios. - Lactosul Ind. de Laticínios Ltda (May 2006)

★ Motor vehicles: 813 automobiles (2004)

★ Cattle herd: 194,500 head (2004)

★ Poultry: 36,220 (2004)

★ Swine: 6,590 (20049

★ Dairy cows: 22,050 (2004)

★ Main crops (2005): pineapple, rice (1,116 hectares), bananas, beans, manioc, soybeans (3,234 hectares), and corn (350 hectares).

Education (2005)

★ Schools: 11

★ Classrooms: 88

★ Teachers: 188

★ Students: 3,469

★ Middle school enrollment: 474 students

★ Higher education: Campus of the State University of Goiás

★ Adult literacy rate: 84.8% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health (2003)

★ Hospitals: 2

★ Hospital beds: 78

★ Ambulatory clinics: 2

★ Doctors, nurses, dentists: 19, 2, 4 (2002)

★ Infant mortality rate: 28.24 (2000) (national average was 33.0).

Income distribution (2000)

★ Households: 3,665

★ Households declaring no income: 296

★ Households declaring income of less than 1 minimum salary: 1,407

★ Between 1 and 2 minimum salaries: 923

★ Between 2 and 3 minimum salaries: 325

★ Between 3 and 5 minimum salaries: 303

★ Between 5 and 10 minimum salaries: 241

★ Between 10 and 15 minimum salaries: 68

★ Between 15 and 20 minimum salaries: 50

★ Between 20 and 30 minimum salaries: 20

★ More than 30 minimum salaries: 32

Tourism

There is great potential for ecoturism. It is an ideal place for those who want to practice hiking, going down rapids, diving and other sports activities practiced near nature. The São Domingos river is ideal for canoeing, and descending on rafts or tire-tubes. Hikers can walk through totally virgen forests, which have unexplored caves.
==Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index

★ Life expectancy: 67.3

★ Literacy rate: .829

★ School attendance rate: .905

★ MHDI: 0.773

★ Ranking in state: 118/245

★ National ranking: 2249/5507
''All data are from 2000''

See also==

★ List of municipalities in Goiás

Sources of Data

★ Diario da Manhã

★ IBGE

★ Seplan

★ Frigoletto

★ City Brazil

★ Sepin
For the complete list see Frigoletto.com.br