Varjão

Varjão
Municipality

Location in Goiás state
Varjão
Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 17°02′42″S 49°37′54″W / 17.04500°S 49.63167°W / -17.04500; -49.63167Coordinates: 17°02′42″S 49°37′54″W / 17.04500°S 49.63167°W / -17.04500; -49.63167
Country  Brazil
Region Central-West Region
State Goiás
Microregion Vale do Rio dos Bois
Area
 • Total 519 km2 (200 sq mi)
Elevation 609 m (1,998 ft)
Population (2007)
 • Total 3,649
 • Density 7.0/km2 (18/sq mi)
Time zone BRT/BRST (UTC-3/-2)
Postal code 75355-000

Varjão is a municipality in western Goiás state, Brazil.

Geography and Demographics

Varjão is located 77 km. southwest of Goiânia and is 26 km. southeast of Cezarina. Highway connections from Goiânia are made by BR-060/Abadia de Goiás/Guapó/GO-413. Aragoiânia, Cezarina, Indiara, Mairipotaba are adjacent to Varjão. Its postcode (CEP) is 75355-000, and its IBGE statistical microregion is 014 Vale do Rio dos Bois.

As of 2007, Varjão's urban population was 2,192 and its rural population was 1,457. Its population density is 7.03 inhab/km² (2007). See Sepin for the complete list of distances.

Government

Eustáquio Ricardo de Souza is Varjão's mayor (as of January 2005), and the city council has nine members. There are 3,022 eligible voters (as of April 2006).

Economy

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

  • Industrial units: 1 (2007)
  • Commercial units: 38 (2007)
  • Motor vehicles: 420 (2007), which gave a ratio of 9 inhabitants for each motor vehicle
  • Cattle herd: 48,000 head (7,210 milk cows) (2006)
  • Poultry: 19,300 head (2006)
  • Swine: 3,450 head (2006)
  • Main crops: rice (200 hectares), sugarcane, oranges, beans, manioc, corn (600 hectares), and soybeans. (Sepin)

Health and education

In 2006, the 1,141 students in Varjão were served by four schools, with a total of 22 classrooms and 27 teachers. In 2000, its school attendance rate was 0.806. There are no higher education facilities. Varjão's adult literacy rate was 83.0% in 2000, just below the national average of 86.4%.

In 2003, there were no hospitals and two ambulatory clinics in Varjão. In 2002, two doctors, one nurse, and one dentist lived in the town. The town's infant mortality rate 22.64 (2000) is well below the national average of 33.0. In 2000, the town's life expectancy was 69.4.

The score on the Municipal Human Development Index was 0.729 in 2000, ranking it at 149 out of 242 municipalities in the state of Goiás and 2,456 out of 5,507 municipalities in Brazil overall.


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