Cutias (Amapá)

Município de Cutias "Cutias do Araguari" Cutias
Cutias
Coordinates	0 ° 59 ′  N , 50 ° 48 ′  W Coordinates: 0 ° 59 ′  N , 50 ° 48 ′  W
Location of Cutias in the state of Amapá
Symbols
coat of arms flag
founding	May 1, 1992
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Amapá
Região intermediária	Oiapoque-Porto Grande (since 2017)
Região imediata	Oiapoque (since 2017)
structure	1 multiple district
height	6 m
Waters	Rio Araguari
climate	Am, tropical
surface	2,179.1 km²
Residents	4696 (2010)
density	2.2  Ew. / km²
estimate	5864 (July 1, 2018 )
Parish code	IBGE : 1600212
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	prefeituradecutiasap.blogspot.de (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Raimundo Barbosa Amanajás Filho (2017-2020)
Political party	Partido Republicano da Ordem Social (PROS)
Culture
City festival	May 1st (foundation day)
economy
GDP	59,172  thousand R $ 11,184  R $ per capita (2014)
HDI	0.628 (2010)

Cutias , officially Município de Cutias , also Cutias do Araguary or Cutias do Araguari , is a small town with a large municipality in the Brazilian state of Amapá in the Região Norte . It is around 106 km from the capital Macapá . The population was estimated on July 1, 2018 at 5864 inhabitants. The inhabitants who live in the approximately 2179 km² area are called Cutienser (Portuguese cutienses ). The population density in 2010 was 2.2 people per km².

Geography and origin of name

The municipality is named after the local name Cutia for the huntable and edible agoutis ( Dasyprocta ), a species of rodent that occurs frequently there .

The landscape and biome are predominantly shaped by the Amazon rainforest . The climate is tropical according to the Köppen and Geiger Am climate classification . The average temperature is 26.9 ° C. There is a lot of precipitation and few dry spells.

The place is on the Rio Araguari , which flows into the South Atlantic . In addition to river traffic, Cutias is accessible via the AP-070 state road, which ends in Cutias.

history

The area was under the municipality of Macapá until 1992 and became a legally independent municipality on May 1, 1992.

In 2017, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística changed the assignment to geostatistical regions and assigned the municipality to the Região geográfica imediata Oiapoque and the Região geográfica intermediária Oiapoque-Porto Grande .

City administration

Executive: In the local elections in 2016, Raimundo Barbosa Amanajás Filho became city prefect (mayor) for the term from 2017 to 2020, who ran for the Partido Republicano da Ordem Social (PROS). The legislature rests with a city council (Câmara Municipal) made up of nine elected city councilors (vereadores). The municipality forms a single district.

Standard of living

The human development index for cities, abbreviated HDI (Portuguese: IDH-M ), was at the very low value of 0.161 in 1991, at the low value of 0.444 in 2000, and at the mean value of 0.628 in 2010.

Web links

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Portuguese)
• Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Cutias - panorama , updated statistical information (Portuguese)
• Governo do Estado do Amapá, Secretaria de Estado do Planejamento: Síntese de informações socioeconômicas do município Cutias. SEPLAN, Amapá 2017 (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Amapá: Cutias. Retrieved April 11, 2018 (Portuguese).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Estimativas da população residente no Brasil e unidades da federação com data de referência em 1 ° de julho de 2018. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: ibge.gov.br. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Professor Amanajás 90. In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed April 11, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
4. ↑ Governo do Estado do Amapá, Secretaria de Estado do Planejamento: Síntese de informações socioeconômicas do município Cutias. ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. SEPLAN, Amapá 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2018 (Portuguese). 
5. ↑ Climate Cutias do Araguary: Weather, climate table & climate diagram. In: climate-data.org. de.climate-data.org, accessed on April 11, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Divisão Regional do Brasil. 2017, accessed January 28, 2017 . 
7. ^ Atlas do desenvolvimento humano no Brasil - Cutias . Retrieved April 11, 2018 (Portuguese).