Castanhal

Município de Castanhal "Cidade Modelo " Castanhal
	Castanhal city entrance
	Castanhal
	Castanhal
Coordinates	1 ° 18 ′ S , 47 ° 55 ′ W Coordinates: 1 ° 18 ′ S , 47 ° 55 ′ W
	Location of the municipality in the state of Pará
Symbols
coat of arms	flag
founding	28th January 1932 (age 88)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Pará
ISO 3166-2	BR-PA
Metropolitan area	Belém metropolitan area
height	41 m
climate	tropical, Am / Af
surface	1,029.3 km²
Residents	173,149 (2010)
density	168.2 Ew. / km²
estimate	200,793 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 1502400
Post Code	68743-000
Telephone code	(+55) 91
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	castanhal.pa (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Pedro Coelho (2017-2020)
Political party	Cidadania
economy
GDP	3,757,159 thousand. R $; 19,243 R $ per capita ; (2017)
HDI	0.673 (medium) (2010)

Castanhal , officially Portuguese Município de Castanhal , is a city in the Brazilian state of Pará . It is located 65 km east of the capital Belém and is part of the metropolitan region of Belém . It can be reached via the BR-316 federal highway . The climate is equatorially tropical. The population was estimated on July 1, 2019 at 200,793 inhabitants, who are called Castanhalenses ( castanhalenses ) and who live on an area of around 1029 km². In terms of population, it is the fifth largest city of the 144 municipalities of Pará.

history

Castanhal was officially founded on January 28, 1932 (date of notarization) and got its name because of the nut trees (Portuguese Castanha ) near the railway station, around kilometer 73, on the Bragança - Belém railway line on the Estrada de Ferro de Bragança . Workers and railway workers from the northeast settled down around the station. Local farmers then sold their products on the markets and the Castanhal trading center was created. The Bragança Railway stopped operating in 1957 and the rails were removed.

The government of the state of Pará gave Castanhal the nickname "cidade modelo" (ie: model city). In 2004 Pope John Paul II established the diocese of Castanhal . It is subordinate to the Archdiocese of Belém do Pará as a suffragan .

education

Castanhal has developed into a national educational center in Pará. There are eight secondary schools and three universities:

Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA): Faculties of Veterinary Medicine, Mathematics, Sports, Literature, Pedagogy, Computer Science.
Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA): Faculties of mechanical engineering, agriculture, agricultural technology, physics, biology, pedagogy.
Faculdade de Castanhal (FCAT): Faculties of Agricultural Science, Business Administration and Marketing, Computer Science, Pedagogy, History, Biology.

economy

Due to its geographically convenient location, Castanhal has developed into an important and significant trading center for food and agricultural goods (grain, corn, cassava , pepper, palm oil ) for the entire north-east of Paras and beyond .

Castanhal is also developing into a technology center. There are energy companies that specialize in high voltage and high technology in well construction. Here is also the headquarters of a company that produces work shoes for the food industry and an industrial park that manufactures metallurgical equipment for mining companies.

Personalities

Bruno Suzuki (* 1990), football player

Web links

Commons : Castanhal - collection of images, videos and audio files

City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

↑ Climate Castanhal: Weather, average temperature, weather forecast for Castanhal. In: de.climate-data.org. Climate-Data.org, accessed on August 9, 2020 .
↑ Castanhal - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed August 9, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
↑ Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad efficacius providendum , AAS 97 (2005), n. 3, pp. 279-281.
↑ UFPA . UFPA website. Retrieved July 15, 2011.
^ Universidade do Estado do Pará. In: uepa.br. Retrieved August 2, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).

[1] Climate Castanhal: Weather, average temperature, weather forecast for Castanhal. In: de.climate-data.org. Climate-Data.org, accessed on August 9, 2020 .

[IBGECast-2] Castanhal - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed August 9, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).

[3] Ioannes Paulus II: Const. Apost. Ad efficacius providendum , AAS 97 (2005), n. 3, pp. 279-281.

[4] UFPA . UFPA website. Retrieved July 15, 2011.

[5] Universidade do Estado do Pará. In: uepa.br. Retrieved August 2, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).