Itapiranga (Amazon)

Município de Itapiranga "Cidade Santa" Itapiranga
Itapiranga
Coordinates	2 ° 45 ′  S , 58 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 2 ° 45 ′  S , 58 ° 1 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Amazonas
Symbols
coat of arms
founding	December 29, 1956 (town charter) (age 63)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Amazon
Metropolitan area	Manaus metropolitan area
height	63 m
climate	tropical, Am / Af
surface	4,335.1 km²
Residents	8211 (2010)
density	1.9  Ew. / km²
estimate	9,148 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 1302009
Post Code	69120-000
Telephone code	(+55)  92
Time zone	UTC −4
politics
City Prefect	Denise de Farias Lima (2017-2020)
Political party	PROS
economy
GDP	107,576  thousand R $ 11,789 R $ per person  (2017)
HDI	0.654 (medium) (2010)

Itapiranga (officially Portuguese Município de Itapiranga ) is a municipality (municipal city) in the state of Amazonas in the northern Brazilian region . It belongs to the metropolitan area of ​​Manaus . The population was estimated on July 1, 2019 at 9148 inhabitants, who live on a community area of ​​around 4335 km² and are called Itapiranguenser ( itapiranguenses ). The majority concentrate on the urban area of the main town on the Rio Urubu .

Toponymy

Itapiranga is a term of indigenous origin and means red stone .

geography

The surrounding communities are Itacoatiara , São Sebastião do Uatumã and Silves , in the north Presidente Figueiredo .

The biome is the Amazon rainforest (Amazônia). The population lives partly from subsistence farming and extractivism .

climate

The city has a tropical climate, Af according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 27.0 ° C. The average rainfall is 2163 mm per year.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Itapiranga

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temperature ( ° C )	26.4	26.5	26.6	26.7	26.7	26.6	27.1	27.6	27.9	27.7	27.1	27.0	O	27.0
Precipitation ( mm )	290	274	322	264	233	128	118	88	69	93	103	181	Σ	2163

Population development

The church is developing slowly. In 2010 around 36% of the population were children and young people up to the age of 15.

year	Residents	city	country
1991	5,137	3,468	1,669
2000	7,309	5,295	2.014
2010	8.211	6,451	1,760
2019	9,148	?	?

Source:

Ethnic composition

group	Share 2000	Share 2010	annotation
Pardos	5,604 (76.68%)	▲ 6,375 (77.64%)	Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos
Pretus	39 (0.54%)	▲ 163 (1.99%)	black
Brancos	1,605 (21.95%)	▲ 1,611 (19.62%)	Whites, descendants of Europeans
Amarelos	36 (0.49%)	▲ 55 (0.67%)	Asians
Indigenous people	- (0.00%)	▲ 7 (0.08%)	indigenous population
without specification	25th	-

Source: SIDRA database query

Economic and social data

The monthly average income in 2018 was 1.9 times the minimum wage of real R $ 880.00 (August 2020 conversion: around € 238), the annual gross national product per capita in 2017 was around R $ 11,789 and the human development index (HDI ) in 2010 was the mean value 0.654.

Illiteracy rate

Itapiranga had an illiteracy rate of 20.1% in 1991 , which had already fallen to 11.4% in the 2010 census, and in 2010 43.2% had dropped out of school.

Illiteracy rate
year				percent
1991			20.12
2000			13.80
2010			11.35

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Itapiranga - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed August 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Denise Lima 90 (Prefeita). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed August 7, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ Eduardo Navarro : Método moderno de tupi antigo. A língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos. 3. Edition. Global, São Paulo 2005.
4. ↑ Climate data , accessed August 7, 2020
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil: Itapiranga, AM . Retrieved August 7, 2020 (Portuguese).
6. ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Accessed on July 30, 2020 (Portuguese, database query, search terms Itapiranga (AM) and Cor ou raça).