Cachoeira Alta

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Município d Cachoeira Alta
Cachoeira Alta
Cachoeira Alta (Brazil)
Cachoeira Alta
Cachoeira Alta
Coordinates 18 ° 46 ′  S , 50 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 18 ° 46 ′  S , 50 ° 57 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Goiás
Location of the municipality in the state of Goiás
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
flag
flag
founding 13th November 1953 (age 66)Template: Infobox location in Brazil / maintenance
Basic data
Country Brazil
State Goiás
ISO 3166-2 BR-GO
structure 1 multiple district
height 497 m
climate tropical, Aw
surface 1,654.6 km²
Residents 10,553 (2010)
density 6.4  Ew. / km²
estimate 12,484 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code IBGE : 5204102
Post Code 75870-000
Telephone code (+55)  64
Time zone UTC −3
Website cachoeiraalta.go (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect Kelson Souza Vilarinho (2017-2020)
Political party Psd
economy
GDP 241,275  thousand R $
20,103  R $ per capita
(2017)
HDI 0.710 (high) (2010)

Cachoeira Alta , officially Portuguese Município de Cachoeira Alta , German high waterfall , is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Goiás . It is located southwest of the Brazilian capital Brasília and the capital of the state of Goiânia . Cachoeira Alta is located in the extreme southwest of Goiás at an altitude of 483 to 497 meters above sea ​​level on a plateau with a flat topography . The distance to the capital Goiânia is 356 km. The population was estimated as of July 1, 2019 at 12,484 inhabitants, who are called Cachoeira-Altensians ( cachoeira-altenses ) and live on a municipal area of ​​around 1655 km².

In 1953 the municipality received city rights and was spun off from the municipality of Rio Verde , to which it had previously formed the Distrito de Cachoeira Alta since 1931 . The place is named after the stream of the same name. The municipality of São Sebastião also belongs to the municipality.

geography

Cachoeira Alta borders

  • to the north to the municipality of Rio Verde
  • in the northeast on Quirinópolis with the border rivers Rio Preto and Rio Alegre
  • in the southeast at Paranaiguara
  • from south to northwest at Caçu with the border river Rio CLaro
  • in the northwest at Aparecida do Rio Doce with the border river Rio Doce

Cachoeira Alta is located on the diagonal BR-364 federal road , which connects São Paulo to Acre via the states of Minas Gerais , Goiás, Mato Grosso , Rondônia .

The biome consists of Brazilian cerrado and mata atlântica . The climate is tropical, Aw according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 24.2 ° C. The average rainfall is 1521 mm per year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cachoeira Alta - Panorama. IBGE , accessed July 23, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ SEPLAN: Road kilometers to Goiânia ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Climate Cachoeira Alta: Weather, average temperature, weather forecast for Cachoeira Alta. In: de.climate-data.org. Retrieved July 23, 2020 .