URUANA

Uruana
State	Goiás
Area:	522.1 km²
Population:	14,051 ''(IBGE 2005)''
Elevation:	586 m
Postcode (CEP):	76335-000
IBGE statistical microregion:	006 Ceres Microregion
Became a city:	1948
Distance to Goiânia:	159 km
Website:	none

'Uruana' is a small city and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil.

Contents

Location

Political information

Demographic information

Economic information

Education (2005)

Health (2003)

Tourism

See also

Sources of data

Location

Uruana is located 36 km. southwest of Ceres. It is 25 km. west of the highway junction with BR-153 at Rianápolis.

★ Highway access from Goiânia: GO-070 / Goianira / Inhumas / Itauçu / GO-154 / Itaguaru / Uruíta. Uruana is 25 km west of BR-153. See Seplan
Uruana has boundaries with:

★ North: Carmo do Rio Verde

★ South: Itaberaí and Itaguaru

★ East: Rianápolis and Jaraguá

★ West: Heitoraí and Itapuranga
Uruana is located on the east bank of the Rio Uru. The most important rivers are the Uru, das Almas, and the Sucuri. The Uru provides water for the town and forms the dividing line between Uruana and Itapuranga and Carmo do Rio Verde

Political information

★ Mayor: Divan José Resende (January 2005)

★ City council: 09 members

★ Eligible voters: 11,092 (April/2006)

Demographic information

★ Population density: 26.91 inhab/km² (2005)

★ Urban population: 10,919 (2000)

★ Rural population: 3,019 (2000)

★ Population growth: a gain of about 2,000 people since 1980

Economic information

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
In 2002 the GDP was 49.7 million Reais. This was ranked 96 out of 246 municipalities in the state. The agricultural sector produced 22.9 million Reais, the industrial sector produced 4.4 million Reais, and the services sector produced 22.2 million Reais.

★ Industrial units: 23 (2005)

★ Commercial units: 98 (2005)

★ Dairy: Laticínios Queijo Bom Rocha Ltda (22/05/2006)

★ Meat-packing plant: none (22/05/2006)

★ Financial institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A.
- Banco Itaú S.A. (01/06/2005)

★ Automobiles: 1,202 (2004)

★ Cattle herd: 62,500 head (19,900 milk cows) (2004)

★ Poultry: 41,000 head (2004)

★ Swine: 6,000 head (2004)

★ Main crops: pineapple, rice (21 km²), bananas, coconuts, sugarcane (12 km²), watermelon (10 km²), beans, manioc, corn (30 km²), soybeans, and tomatoes.

Education (2005)

★ Schools: 19

★ Classrooms: 112

★ Teachers: 191

★ Students: 3,720

★ Higher education: none

★ Adult literacy rate: 86.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health (2003)

★ Hospitals: 2

★ Hospital beds: 56

★ Ambulatory clinics: 5

★ Doctors, nurses, dentists: 14, 4, 6 (2002)

★ Infant mortality rate: 17.56 (2000) (national average was 33.0).

Tourism

Uruana is a large producer of watermelon and puts on a festival called the Festa da Melancia (Watermelon Festival), with a parade of schools, producers, and floats, together with dances. A girl is chosen to be Queen of the Watermelon and samples of the fruit are handed out to the visitors.
==Municipal Human Development Index==

★ Life expectancy: 71.6

★ Adult literacy: 0.851

★ School attendance: 0.811

★ MHDI: 0.758

★ State ranking: 63 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)

★ National ranking: 1,656 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000)
''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