Gama (Federal District)

Região Administrativa de Gama Gama
Gama
Coordinates	16 ° 1 ′  S , 48 ° 4 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 1 ′  S , 48 ° 4 ′  W
Gama on the map of the Federal District
Symbols
coat of arms
founding	October 12, 1960
Basic data
Country	Brazil
Federal District	Federal District
Administrative region	RA II
structure	6th
height	1000 m
surface	276.3 km²
Residents	127,121 (2010)
density	460  Ew. / km²
Post Code	72400-000
Telephone code	(+55)  61
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	www.gama.df.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
Regional administrator	Márcio Palhares de Oliveira ()
Culture
Patron saint	Saint Sebastian
City festival	January 20th

Gama is the administrative region RA II ( Portuguese região administrativa , RA ) in the Brazilian federal district Distrito Federal do Brasil , which was founded as a plan and satellite city ( cidade-satélite ) for Brasília on October 12, 1960. It forms the RA-II of the federal district.

founding

The new capital, which was to be built on a barren plateau in the middle of the country, was associated with the expropriation of homesteads and farmland by the government of the state of Goiás in the period from 1956 to 1958. The town's name derives from the seat of the Gama homestead, which was about eight kilometers away from the " Catetinho ", the first new official seat of Federal President Juscelino Kubitschek .

Like many other cities in the region, Gama was founded to accommodate resident people in temporary accommodation. It was the solution to the massive immigration due to the Brasília construction. These cities around Brasília were named "cidade-satélite" (satellite cities) according to Law No. 3.751 of April 13, 1960.

The architect Paulo Hungria designed the city in May 1960 in the shape of a beehive with five sectors: north, south, east, west and central sector. The central sector devised for trade and industry was not necessarily planned according to what later turned out to be future requirements.

It was the task of the engineer José Maciel de Paiva to set up a commission to take care of the relocations that began in September 1960. For this he had the assistance u. a. of the engineer José Carlos Godoy, as well as the tax officer Agnelo Dias Correia, who, together with his wife and Godoy, is one of the first residents of the city, and the builder Joaquim Santana.

The satellite city was founded on October 12, 1960. The next "first inhabitants" of the city consisted of 30 families expropriated in "Barragem" in the administrative region of Paranoá in 1960 . In addition, the new city has taken in many residents of “Vila Amaury” and “Vila Planalto”. In 1970 residents of the industrial sector of Taguatinga were added. Brasília, originally planned for 600,000 residents and now has several times the population, had to intervene by the administration to regulate and between 1985 and 1991, through administrative measures and forced relocation of people with low or no income, to the satellite cities, which also affected Gama .

After it was founded 50 years ago, Gama is a city with 127,121 inhabitants (as of 2010) that is developing very quickly and is becoming more and more independent of Brasília. The economy is particularly boosted by engineering or civil engineering firms.

Like many Brazilian cities, Gama also has a local patron , Saint Sebastian . Its liturgical celebration always takes place on January 20th.

Townships

The city of Gama was designed with five sectors or districts, each of which, according to the ideas of the time, should fulfill its own tasks, such as work, leisure, living. In the western sector there are both residential and commercial buildings. The eastern sector, on the other hand, is dominated by trade and industry, but there are also apartments there. The north and south sectors were initially intended for more affluent people and therefore larger plots were / are available. The central sector is the economically strongest sector with a lot of public traffic. In addition, there is the industrial sector, which theoretically belongs to the Eastern sector, but has become the sixth, independent sector through engineering, factories and offices.

administration

According to the law, no municipalities, the municípios , can be formed in the Federal District , as in the other states, but only the administrative regions. Therefore, the regional administrator is ultimately appointed by the governor of the Federal District. Currently in office since March 26, 2012, the banker Márcio Palhares de Oliveira (* 1980) by decree of the governor Agnelo Queiroz of March 21, 2012 the “mayor” ( administrador ) of Gama (status: 2012).

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  Central Sector

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  Western sector

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  Eastern sector: commercial and industrial area

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  Bezerrão Stadium

Adjacent to Gama are Santo Antônio do Descoberto ( GO ), Recanto das Emas , Riacho Fundo II , Park Way , Santa Maria and Novo Gama (GO). Gama is located 30 km from the center of Brasília.

Sports

In the central sector of the city is the stadium " Estádio Walmir Campelo Bezerra ", built in 1977 , which is used by the football club "Sociedade Esportiva do Gama", the SE Gama .

Infrastructure

traffic

According to the urban planning requirements of the Athens Charter , the traffic connections in the Federal District were generously planned so that Gama is connected to the following highways, the rodovias : DF-180 , DF-290 , DF-480 , DF-475 and DF-489 .

Gama is not connected to the metro network of the Metrô Brasília .

See also

• Brasília

Web links

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

• Gama District website - DF (Portuguese, accessed November 23, 2012)
• Federal District Government website (Portuguese, accessed November 23, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Apresentação Gama - RA II. (No longer available online.) Portal do Cidadão - Gama, archived from the original on February 1, 2013 ; Retrieved November 23, 2012 (Portuguese). 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.  
2. ↑ Pesquisa Distrital por Amostra de Domicílios - 2010/2011. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Retrieved November 23, 2012 (Portuguese).