Barra do Corda

Município de Barra do Corda "Princesa do Sertão" Barra do Corda
Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição. Barra do Corda
Barra do Corda
Coordinates	5 ° 30 ′  S , 45 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 5 ° 30 ′  S , 45 ° 15 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Maranhão
Symbols
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founding	May 31, 1854 (Vila) (166 years old)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Maranhão
structure	2 districts (Barra do Corda, Papagaio), since 1997
height	148 m
climate	tropical, Aw
surface	5,190.3 km²
Residents	82,830 (2010)
density	16  Ew. / km²
estimate	88,212 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 2101608
Post Code	65680-000
Telephone code	(+55)  99
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	barradocorda.ma (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Wellryk Oliveira Costa da Silva (2017-2020)
Political party	PCdoB
economy
GDP	601,599 thousand R $ 6942  R $ per person  (2016)
HDI	0.606 (medium) (2010)

Barra do Corda , officially Portuguese Município de Barra do Corda , is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Maranhão . The population was estimated as of July 1, 2019 at 88,212 inhabitants, who live on a community area of ​​around 5190.3 km² and are called Barra-Cordenses ( barra-cordenses ). It ranks 11th out of 257 municipalities in the state. The calculated population density is around 16 people per km², in fact over 60% live in the urban area of ​​the eponymous city. The capital São Luís is 462 km away.

Barra do Corda is the seat of the planning region Região de Planejamento dos Guajajaras , which consists of three municipalities and is named after the indigenous Guajajaras living in the center of the country .

The Universidade Estadual do Maranhão maintains the Centro de Estudos Superiores de Barra do Corda (CESBAC) branch in Barra do Corda .

geography

Surrounding communities are Formosa da Serra Negra , Tuntum , Grajaú , Jenipapo dos Vieiras , Fernando Falcão , Joselândia , São Roberto , São Raimundo do Doca Bezerra and Itaipava do Grajaú .

The community has a tropical climate, Aw according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 26.9 ° C. The average rainfall is 1144 mm per year. In the southern summer there is significantly more rainfall in Barra do Corda than in the southern winter.

The Rio Corda and Rio Mearim rivers converge in the municipality.

Local government

The executive rests with the city prefect (mayor). In the local elections in 2016 , Wellryk Oliveira Costa da Silva, called Eric Costa, was elected city prefect by the communist PCdoB for the term from 2017 to 2020. The legislature lies with an elected city council of 11 ( vereadores ).

Population development

year	Residents	city	country
1991	68,939	32,560	36,379
2000	73.117	43,403	29,714
2010	82,830	51,648	31,182
2019	88,212	?	?

Source: IBGE (2011)

Average income and standard of living

The monthly average income in 2017 was 1.4 times the Brazilian minimum wage ( Salário mínimo ) of R $ 880.00 (converted for 2019: around € 279). The Human Development Index (HDI) is rated at 0.606 for 2010 as being in the lower mean. In 2017, 5,292 people or 6.1% of the population were registered as permanently employed; 51.6% of the population had an income of half the minimum wage in 2010.

HDI
year				Points
1991			0.287
2000			0.423
2010			0.606

The gross national product per capita in 2016 was around R $ 6942, the gross national product of the municipality was around R $ 6,015.99 million.

Illiteracy rate

Barra do Corda had an illiteracy rate of 55.2% in 1991 , which had already fallen to 36.1% in the 2010 census. Around 32% of the population in 2010 were children and young people up to the age of 15.

Illiteracy rate
year				percent
1991			55.23
2000			41.90
2010			36.14

Ethnic composition

Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (status 2000 with 78,147 inhabitants, status 2010 with 82,830 inhabitants): Of these, 51,648 inhabitants lived in urban areas in 2010 and 31,182 in rural areas of the rainforest area, Sertão and Cerrado.

group	Share 2000	Share 2010	annotation
Brancos	23,287	▼ 20.143	Whites, descendants of Europeans
Pardos	45,816	▲ 53,915	Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos
Pretus	5,850	▼ 4.982	black
Amarelos	0	▲ 432	Asians
Indigenous people	2,705	▲ 2,975	indigenous population
without specification	399	-

Web links

Commons : Barra do Corda  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• City Council website , C ^ amara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barra do Cordo - História - Formação Administrativa. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Barra do Corda - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed October 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ SEPLAN (ed.): Regiões de Planejamento do Estado de Maranhão . São Luís 2008 (Brazilian Portuguese, gov.br [PDF]).
4. ↑ Barra do Corda climate: average temperature, weather by month, Barra do Corda weather averages - Climate-Data.org. In: de.climate-data.org. Retrieved November 15, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Eric Costa 65 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
6. ↑ Vereadores. In: www.barradocorda.ma.leg.br. Câmara Municipal de Barra do Corda - MA, accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humao no Brasil: Barra do Corda, MA . Retrieved November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese)
8. ↑ Barra do Corda - Panorama - Trabalho e rendimento. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
9. ↑ Barra do Corda - Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed November 15, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
10. ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Retrieved November 15, 2019 (Portuguese, database query, search terms Barra do Corda (MA) and Cor ou raça).