Itajá (Goiás)

Itajá
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Location of the municipality of Itajá in the state of Goiás Itajá Location of the village of Itajá in Goiás
Basic data
State :	Brazil (BRA)
Administrative structure :	Midwest
State :	Goiás (GO)
Mesoregion :	South Goiás
Microregion :	Quirinópolis (GO)
Neighboring municipalities:	Itarumã , Limeira do Oeste - ( MG ), Paranaíba - ( MS ), Lagoa Santa , Cassilândia - ( MS ), Aporé
Distance to Goiânia	408 km
Geographic location :	19 ° 4 ′  S , 51 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 4 ′  S , 51 ° 33 ′  W
Time zone :	UTC -3 summer : UTC-2
Height :	442  m
Area :	2,091,394 km²
Residents :	5,066
Population density :	2.4 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code :	+55 62
Post code ( CEP ):	75815-000
City administration address:
Official Website:	www.itaja.go.gov.br
E-mail address:
Anniversary:	14th November
Church planting:	1958
politics
Mayor :	Joveni Nunes de Freitas (PR), (2009–2012)
Vice Mayor:	Paulo Cesar de Assis ( PMDB )

Itajá is a Brazilian political community in the state of Goiás in the mesoregion South Goiás and the micro-region Quirinópolis . It is located southwest of the Brazilian capital Brasília and the capital of the state, Goiânia .

Other localities in the municipality are Termas de Itajá, Olaria da Fumaça and Aporé (the latter at the confluence of the Rio Aporé in the Rio Paranaíba ).

location

Itajá borders on the following municipalities:

• in the northeast at Itarumã
• in the southeast at Limeira do Oeste ( MG )
• in the southwest on Lagoa Santa , Paranaíba and Cassilândia (both MS )
• in the northwest at Aporé

The municipality is located between the Rio Corrente and Rio Aporé (also called Rio do Peixe , the Aporé means river of fish ). Both flow from northwest to southeast and flow as right tributaries into the Rio Paranaíba or its Ilha-Solteira reservoir , which forms the southeastern municipal boundary. The Rio Aporé flows into the Rio Paranaíba at the border triangle of Goiás, Minas Gerais and Mato Grosso do Sul.

See also

• Mesoregions and micro-regions in Goiás

Web links

• Itajá website (Portuguese)
• AMESGO: Itajá (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SEPLAN: Road kilometers to Goiânia ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2009 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.  
2. ↑ First results of the 2010 census in Goiás (PDF; 30 kB), carried out by IBGE .