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Teresina de Goiás

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official_nameTeresina de Goiás
settlement_typeMunicipality
image_shieldBrasão de Teresina de Goiás.png
image_flagBandeira_de_Teresina_de_Goiás.svg
image_skylinePraça Tiradentes, Teresina de Goiás.jpg
image_mapGoias Municip TeresinadeGoias.svg
map_captionLocation in Goiás state
pushpin_mapBrazil
pushpin_map_captionLocation in Brazil
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subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameBrazil
subdivision_type1Region
subdivision_name1Central-West
subdivision_type2State
subdivision_name2Goiás
subdivision_type3Mesoregion
subdivision_type4Microregion
subdivision_name4Chapada dos Veadeiros
subdivision_type5Metrop. region
leader_titleMayor
elevation_m754
area_total_km2774.6
population_total3,498
population_as_of2020
population_density_km2auto
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utc_offset1−3
postal_code_typePostal code
postal_code73795-000
area_code_typeArea code

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

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

References

  1. [https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/go/teresina-de-goias/panorama IBGE 2020]
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