Itaberaí

Itaberaí
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Location of the municipality of Itaberaí in the state of Goiás Itaberaí Location of the town of Itaberaí in Goiás
Basic data
State :	Brazil (BRA)
Administrative structure :	Midwest
State :	Goiás (GO)
Mesoregion :	Central Goiás (1989 to 2017)
Microregion :	Anápolis (1989 to 2017)
Adjacent municipalities:	Itauçu , Mossâmedes , Americano do Brasil , Avelinópolis , Anicuns , Araçu , Goiás Velho , Heitoraí , Itaguari , Itaguaru , Taquaral de Goiás , Uruana
Distance to Goiânia :	111 km
Geographic location :	16 ° 1 ′  S , 49 ° 49 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 1 ′  S , 49 ° 49 ′  W
Time zone :	UTC –3 summer : UTC – 2
Height :	701  m
Area :	1,471 km²
Residents :	35,412
Population density :	24.1 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code :	+55 62
Post code ( CEP ):	76630-000
City administration address:
Official Website:	itaberai.go.gov.br
E-mail address:
Anniversary:	November 9th
Church planting:	1868
politics
City Prefect :	Carlos Roberto da Silva ( PP ), (2017-2020)
Vice Mayor:

Itaberaí , officially Portuguese Município de Itaberaí , is a Brazilian political municipality and city in the state of Goiás . It is located west of the Brazilian capital Brasília and northwest of the capital Goiânia .

Origin of name

Itataberaí means flow of brilliant stones in the indigenous language of the Tupi .

history

The place was first known as Curralinho and belonged to the city of Goiás, today Goiás Velo, on November 9, 1868 (considered the city's foundation date) it was spun off with the status of Vila and was called Vila de Nossa Senhora D'Abadia do Curralinho . On August 5, 1924, it was raised to the rank of town and given the name Itaberaí.

Geographical location

Other localities in the municipality are São Benedito, Santa Rita, Congomé, Lobeira and São José do Retiro.

Itaberaí borders

• in the north to the municipalities of Heitoraí and Uruana
• to the east at Itaguaru , Itaguari , Taquaral de Goiás and Itauçu
• to the south at Araçu , Avelinópolis , Anicuns and Americano do Brasil
• to the west on Mossâmedes and Goiás Velho

The city is located on the Brazilian federal highway BR-070 , from which the state road GO-070 branches off in Itaberaí to the capital Goiânia .

Hydrography

The municipal area drains north into the Tocantins Basin over the Rio Uru , which forms the western border with Mossâmedes and Goiás Velho and rises in the Serra Dourada . Its two right tributaries, which also arise in the municipality, are the Rio do Bagre and Rio das Pedras . The Rio Uru flows into the Rio das Almas on the northern border of the municipality of Uruana , a tributary to the Serra da Mesa reservoir . The watershed to the southern Paraná basin runs roughly along the southern municipal boundary.

economy

In Itaberaí there is a large poultry farm and factory (SuperFrango) with a processing capacity of around 180,000 chickens per day and more than ten million hatching eggs per month in 2010.

Web links

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SEPLAN: Distances of the communities in Goiás to Goiânia ( Memento of February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Brazilian Portuguese)
2. ↑ First results of the 2010 census in Goiás (PDF; 30 kB), carried out by IBGE .
3. ^ Portal Itaberaí: History of Itaberaí (Brazilian Portuguese)
4. ↑ Managing and monitoring plant power. In: csemag.com. Consulting - Specifying Engineer, October 1, 2010, accessed July 30, 2019 .