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Country
  
Brazil

State
  
Goiás

Elevation
  
459 m (1,506 ft)

Region
  
Central-West Region

Microregion
  
Vale do Rio dos Bois

Time zone
  
BRT/BRST (UTC-3/-2)

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Turvelândia is a municipality in eastern Goiás state, Brazil.

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Location

Turvelândia is located 65 km. east of Rio Verde

  • Highway connections from Goiânia are made by state highway BR-060 west from Goiânia, through / Abadia de Goiás / Guapó / Indiara / Acreúna/ GO-164 / Santa Helena de Goiás / BR-452 / GO-409 / Maurilândia.

    • Neighboring municipalities: Acreúna, Edéia, Santa Helena de Goiás, Maurilândia

    Political Information

  • Mayor: Eduardo Mendonça (January 2005)
  • City council: 09 members
  • Eligible voters: 3,348 (December/2007)

    • Demographic Information

  • Population density: 4.1 inhab/km² (2007)
  • Urban population: 2,865 (2007)
  • Rural population: 987 (2007)
  • Population growth: a loss of about 1,800 people since 1991

    • Economic Information

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

    Public administration provided jobs for 238 workers in 2003.

  • Industrial units: 3 (2007)
  • Commercial units: 32 (2007)
  • Destillary: Vale do Verdão S/A (2007)
  • Motor vehicles: 233 (2007), which gave a ratio of 16 inhabitants for each motor vehicle
  • Cattle herd: 45,000 head (3,600 milk cows) (2006)
  • Main crops: cotton, rice, sugarcane (11,200 hectares), manioc, corn (3,000 hectares), sorghum, and soybeans (14,000 hectares).

    • Education (2006)

  • Schools: 4 with 1,075 students
  • Higher education: none
  • Adult literacy rate: 79.6% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

    • Health (2007)

  • Hospitals: 1
  • Hospital beds: 13
  • Ambulatory clinics: 3
  • Infant mortality rate: 38.71 (2000) (national average was 33.0)

    • Municipal Human Development Index

  • MHDI: 0.685
  • State ranking: 220 (out of 242 municipalities in 2000)
  • National ranking: 3,223 (out of 5,507 municipalities in 2000)

    • Data are from 2000

    For the complete list see Frigoletto.com

    References

    Turvelândia Wikipedia
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