Cacoal
| Município de Cacoal "Capital do Café"
Cacoal
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 Aerial view of Cacoal 2018 seen from the east, with the Rio Machado in the background .
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 26 ′ S , 61 ° 27 ′ W | ||
 Location of the municipality in the state of Rondônia
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Motto "Paz, trabalho, progresso" Peace, Work, Progress |
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| founding | 26th November 1977 (age 42) | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Rondônia | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-RO | ||
| height | 200 m | ||
| Waters | Rio Ji-Paraná | ||
| climate | equatorial, Am / Aw | ||
| surface | 3,792.9 km² | ||
| Residents | 78,574 (2010) | ||
| density | 20.7 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 85,359 (July 1, 2019) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 1100049 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −4 | ||
| Website | www.cacoal.ro.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | Glaucione Maria Rodrigues Neri (2017–2020) | ||
| Political party | MDB | ||
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| City festival | November 26th (city foundation) | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 1,944,787 thousand R $ 22,131 R $ per capita (2016) |
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| HDI | 0.718 (2010) | ||
Cacoal , officially Município de Cacoal , is a city in the Brazilian state of Rondônia located on the Rio Ji-Paraná , which according to an estimate from 2019 has 85,359 inhabitants. It is a center of coffee cultivation in Brazil and is therefore known as the “Capital of Coffee” (Capital do Café) .
history
After the land was opened up in 1909 by the expedition of the Cândido Rondon , a telegraph station was built in 1912 at the confluence of the Rio Pimenta Bueno and the Rio Barão de Melgaço to the Rio Ji-Paraná , also known as Rio Machado , from which the city starts Pimenta Bueno developed. Anísio Serrãno de Carvalho, who was originally from Paraíba and who worked here as a cable guard , acquired farmland further downstream from the Ji-Paraná in 1920, which he named Cacoal . The large-scale colonization of the area, with which the further development of the farmland began with the formation of an urban center around the old farm, did not begin until 1970 with settlers recruited from the population centers on the coast of the southeast .
In 1972 Cacoal was established as an administrative district of the city of Porto Velho and on October 11, 1977 it was separated from it by federal law (Lei Federal No. 6.448) as a separate municipality. The formation of the Cacoal community was completed on November 26, 1977. The municipal area was originally covered by the Amazon rainforest , which with increasing settlement and land development was pushed back to the north of the area by slash and burn and is still threatened there.
Geography: area and population
According to the last official census from 2010, the population was 78,574. With 3806 km², the area of the entire municipality is somewhat larger than the Saarland , but has a population density of only 20.07 inhabitants per km².
climate
The city has a tropical climate, Aw according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 24 ° C. The average rainfall is 1899 mm per year. The southern winter has considerably more rainfall than the southern summer.
Ethnic composition
Ethnic groups of Cacoal according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (status 2000 with 73,568 inhabitants, status 2010 with 78,574 inhabitants): Of these, 61,921 inhabitants (around 79%) lived in urban areas in 2010 and 16,653 (around 21%) in the largely agriculturally developed surrounding areas .
| group | Share 2000 |
Share 2010 |
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| Brancos | 38,590 | 32,837 | Whites, descendants of Europeans |
| Pardos | 31.198 | 38,714 | Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos |
| Pretus | 2,244 | 4,534 | black |
| Amarelos | 213 | 1,023 | Asians |
| Indigenous people | 801 | 1,467 | indigenous population |
| without specification | 522 | - |
Cacoal is part of the Serra amazônica dialect region .
Average income and standard of living
The monthly average income in 2017 was 2.0 times the Brazilian minimum wage ( Salário mínimo ) of R $ 880.00 (converted for 2019: around € 390). The Human Development Index (HDI) is rated high at 0.718 for 2010. In 2017, 19,682 people or 22.2% of the population were registered as being employed; 35.6% of the population had an income of half the minimum wage. In August 2019, 2592 families or 47% of the families classified as poor by the IBGE received support through the Bolsa Família program .
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| 1991 | 0.407 | |||
| 2000 | 0.567 | |||
| 2010 | 0.718 | |||
The gross national product per capita was R $ 22,131 in 2017, the gross national product of the municipality was around R $ 1944.8 million.
Urban politics
City Prefect for the 2017 to 2020 term of office has been Glaucione Maria Rodrigues Neri of the Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB) since the local elections in Brazil in 2016 . The legislature rests with a 12-member city council, the vereadores .
traffic
Cacoal is passed by the BR-364 federal road, which runs from Limeira (state of São Paulo ) to Mâncio Lima (state of Acre ) and cuts the entire state of Rondônia from east to west. With the “Aeroporto Capital do Café” the city has a regional airport.
religion
The first churches built in Cacoal belonged to the Catholic Church , in whose hierarchy they are subordinate to the diocese of Ji-Paraná . In the recent past churches of the evangelical tendency have also established themselves in the city .
Sports
Cacoal is home to the football clubs SE União Cacoalense and Cacoal EC , which rank in the leagues of the Rondônia national championship .
Personalities
- Millene (born December 13, 1994), football player
Web links
- City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Cacoal - Panorama. In: ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed September 20, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Climate Cacoal - Data and the graph for Cacoal , accessed on 23 September 2019.
- ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Accessed on 16 September 2019 (Portuguese, database query, search terms Cacoal (RO) and Cor ou raça).
- ↑ Cacoal, RO. In: atlasbrasil.org.br. Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil, accessed September 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Cacoal - Panorama - Trabalho e rendimento. In: ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed September 23, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Relatório do Bolsa Família e Cadastro Único: Cacoal / Ro , accessed on September 23, 2019 (database query, Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Cacoal - Produto Interno Bruto dos Municipios. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed September 23, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Glaucione 15 (Prefeita). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed September 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).