RIANáPOLIS

Rianápolis
State	Goiás
Area:	159.3 km²
Population:	4,410 ''(IBGE 2005)''
Elevation:	589 m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	76310-000
Became a city:	1958
Distance to Goiânia:	156 km
Statistical Microregion:	Ceres Microregion
Website:	not available

Contents

Location

Political information

Demographic Information

Economy

Education (2005)

Health (2003)

Water, electricity and sewage

See also

Sources of data

Location

'Rianápolis' is a small town and municipality in northeastern Goiás state, Brazil. It is located almost directly north of the state capital and is on the important BR-153 highway, which links Belem to São Paulo. The regional center of Ceres, is located 19 km. to the northwest.

★ Highway connections: BR-153 from Anápolis to Rianápolis. From Goiânia take GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 / Jaraguá. Rianápolis is 43 km. north of Jaraguá. See Seplan
Neighboring municipalities: Rialma, Santa Rita do Novo Destino, Jaraguá, and Uruana

Political information

★ Mayor: Ery de Castro e Silva (January 2005)

★ Number of voters: 3,325 (April 2006)

★ Number of members on city council: 9

Demographic Information

★ Population density: 27.68 inhab/km² (2005)

★ Urban population: 3,778(2003)

★ Rural population: 609 (2003)

★ Population growth or loss: a gain of about 900 people since 1980

Economy

Economic activity is based on agriculture, cattle raising, services, small transformation industries, and government employment
'Economic data'

★ Industrial units: 9 (10/06/2005)

★ Retail units: 43

★ Dairies: LACEL - Laticínios Ceres Ltda (22/05/2006)

★ Banking establishments: none (01/06/2005)

★ Automobiles: 478 (2004)

★ Cattle: 18,000 (2004)

★ Poultry: 7,300 (2004)

★ Swine: 900 (2004)

★ Dairy cows: 3,300 (2004)

★ Main agricultural crops: rice (2.5 km²), sugarcane (24 km²), beans, manioc, corn (3 km²), and soybeans (6 km²).

Education (2005)

★ Schools: 4

★ Classrooms: 26

★ Teachers: 46

★ Students: 1,284

★ Middle school enrollment: 205 students

★ Higher education:

★ Adult literacy rate: 83.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health (2003)

★ Hospitals: 1

★ Hospital beds: 43

★ Ambulatory clinics: 2

★ Doctors, nurses, dentists: 09, 01, 02 (2002)

★ Infant mortality rate: 17.5 (2000) (national average was 33.0).

Water, electricity and sewage

★ Electricity connections: 1,557 (2005)

★ Water connections: 1,310 (2005)

★ Sewage connections: none (2005)
==Human Development Index==

★ Life expectancy: 71.6

★ Adult literacy rate: 0.820

★ School attendance rate: 0.810

★ MHDI: 0.759

★ State ranking: 60 (out of 242 municipalities)

★ National ranking: 1,639 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
''Data are from 2000''
For the complete list see frigoletto.com.br

See also

★ List of municipalities in Goiás

Sources of data

★ Diario da Manhã

★ IBGE

★ Seplan

★ Frigoletto

★ City Brazil

★ Sepin