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Teresina de Goiás

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Country
  
Brazil

State
  
Goiás

Elevation
  
754 m (2,474 ft)

Region
  
Central-West Region

Microregion
  
Chapada dos Veadeiros

Time zone
  
BRT/BRST (UTC-3/-2)

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Teresina de Goiás is a municipality in northern Goiás state, Brazil.

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Location

It is part of the region of the statistical micro-region of Chapada dos Veadeiros and is located north of the Federal District and Brasília. It is 67 km north of Alto Paraíso de Goiás. The nearest major population center is Formosa. Neighboring municipalities are Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Cavalcante, and Nova Roma, Goiás.

The distance to the state capital, Goiânia, is 488 km. Highway connections are made by BR-153 / Anápolis / BR-060 / Alexânia / Planaltina / GO-118 / BR-010 / São João d'Aliança / Alto Paraíso de Goiás / BR-010 / GO-118.

Teresina is near the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park. Communities of descendants of runaway slaves, called Kalunga, are found nearby.

The economy

The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising (10,700 in 2006), services, public administration, and small transformation industries. There were no banking institutions or hospitals in 2007. There were 50 automobiles, 8 trucks, and 9 pick-up trucks in all of the municipality in 2007. IBGE

Agricultural Information

  • Number of farms: 194
  • Total area: 64,696
  • Area of permanent crops: 33
  • Area of perennial crops: 242
  • Area of natural pasture: 56,935
  • Persons dependent on agriculture: 320
  • Number of farms with tractors: 6
  • Tractors: 9 IBGE
  • Health and education

  • Adult literacy rate: 74.2% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)
  • Infant mortality rate: 26.50 (2000) (national average was 33.0). The rate was 47.7 in 1990.
  • Municipal Human Development Index: 0.672
  • State ranking: 227 (out of 242 municipalities)
  • National ranking: 3,430 (out of 5,507 municipalities) Frigoletto
  • Schools: 7 with 1,221 students (2006)
  • Hospitals: none, but there was one public ambulatory clinic Seplan
  • Teresina was first created as a district of the municipality of Cavalcante in 1968, becoming dismembered in 1988.

    References

    Teresina de Goiás Wikipedia