RIO VERDE, GOIáS

Rio Verde
State	Goiás
Area:	8,388.2 km²
Population:	133,231 ''(IBGE 2005)''
Elevation:	748m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	75900-000
Became a city:	1854
IBGE statistical Microregion:	Southwest Goiás Microregion
Distance to Goiânia:	229 km.
Website:	Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Verde

'Rio Verde' is a small city and municipality in the Brazilian state of Goiás. It is a fast-growing center and is the largest producer of grains in the state.

Contents

Location

Economy

Education

Health care

Commerce and industry

Quality of Life

See also

Sources of Data

Notes

External links

Location

It is the center of the Southwest Goiás Microregion, situated at a distance of 229 km (142 mi) from Goiânia, the capital of the state and 420 km (261 mi) from Brasilia, the capital of Brazil.
Highway connections from Goiânia and these following other cities; Abadia de Goiás, Guapó, Indiara, Acreúna, and Santo Antônio da Barra are made by BR-060. ^[1]
Its location is: . The annual average temperature is between 20°C and 35°C. Vegetation is mainly cerrado, with some residual forests.
The bordering cities are Aparecida do Rio Doce, Cachoeira Alta, Caiapônia, Castelândia, Jataí, Maurilândia, Montividiu, Paraúna, Quirinópolis, Santa Helena de Goiás, and Santo Antonio da Barra.
Two major federal highways cross the municipality: BR-060, which links Brasília to the state of Acre, and BR-452, which links Rio Verde to Itumbiara, Goiás.
Rio Verde has a regional airport with a paved 1,500-meter runway, , with night lighting and a passenger terminal. There are daily flights to São Paulo.

Economy

Rio Verde is the largest producer of grains in the state, reaching up to 790 thousand metric tons per year of rice, cotton, soy, maize, sorghum, millet, beans and sunflowers. A large production of sugarcane for the extraction of sugar and ethanol is also notable. The arable land exceeds 2,300 square kilometres. With 380,000 head (2003), the city has one of the largest cattle herds and is the largest producer of milk in the state, producing 55 million liters per month. It also is a large producer of chickens (750,000) and pigs (306,000). Approximately 20 thousand head of cattle are slaughtered per month, supplying both the domestic and international markets (10% of the production is exported).
The Gross Domestic Product was 1.435 billion Reais in 2002 (approximately 700 million dollars). [1]
Agricultural production (2003) in hectares: ^[2]

★ cotton: 3,000

★ rice: 3,000

★ sugarcane: 1,060

★ beans: 8,400

★ corn: 43,000

★ soybeans: 250,000

★ sorghum: 40,000

★ wheat: 1,000

Education

The city is a regional educational center, in all educational levels. There are 32,000 students enrolled in primary and secondary education , in 11 elementary schools, 52 municipal junior and high schools, 19 state junior and high schools and 20 private schools. Vocational education at the secondary level is offered by CEFET of Rio Verde, with courses in agriculture; SENAI, with courses in automobile maintenance, electronics, heavy mechanics, computer science, security and administrative support; SENAC, with business management, computer science, fashion and beauty, health care, tourism, social communication and arts. Rio Verde has one university, the ''Fundação do Ensino Superior do Rio Verde'' (FESURV), with 13 undergraduate courses in several areas, as well as other colleges, such as Faculdades Objetivo, Faculdade Almeida Rodrigues and CEFET - Federal Center of Technological Education.

Health care

Rio Verde is a regional health care center, with 110 physicians and 150 dentists, in all specialties, 26 clinics, two mobile and one airborne intensive care units, and three ambulances. It has also 9 hospitals, 1 hemocenter and 1 municipal emergency care center, 11 ambulatory public health centers, which dispense about 25,000 consultations a month. It has also a Family Medicine Program (PSF), with eight teams.

Commerce and industry

Rio Verde has 363 industries, 2,356 commercial establishments and 1,996 service establishments (statistics of 2000). It has also 5 industrial districts. The largest employer is the Mixed Cooperative of Agricultural Producers of Southwestern Goiás, the first to be founded in the entire Center-West region, ranking among the three largest of the country, with more than 4 thousand employees and generating 1.3 thousand jobs. Rio Verde attracts 62% of the private investments of the state, 60% of the agricultural loans by Banco do Brasil and 15% of the state’s agricultural operational funding. The agricultural vocation is expressed by the strong development of agricultural tourism and events, with emphasis on technologies that bring entrepreneurs and researchers from all over of the world.
The city has four radio stations (three FM and one AM), two TV stations, cable TV and two newspapers.

Quality of Life

The municipality is one of the most prosperous in the state. Rio Verde earned a score of '0.807' on the UN Human Development Index, ranking it number '5' out of '242' municipalities in the state, and number '441' out of '5,507' municipalities in the country. ^[3]

See also

★ List of municipalities in Goiás

Sources of Data

★ Diario da Manhã

★ IBGE

★ Seplan

★ Frigoletto

★ City Brazil

★ Sepin

Notes

1. http://www.seplan.go.gov.br/sepin/ANUARIO2005/transporte/tab01_transporte.htm
2. http://www.ibge.gov.br/cidadesat/default.php Data from the IBGE
3.
http://www.frigoletto.com.br/GeoEcon/idhgo.htm

External links

★ Jornal O Mercador. Local newspaper.

★ Fotoblog. Photos of Rio Verde.

★ Prefeitura Municipal de Rio Verde The official city government site.

★ Virtualzone Lan House The biggest Lan House (Cybercafe) of Rio Verde.

★ Polycanal Cable Tv CATV with HBO, Cinemax, ESPN, MTV, CNN and more.