Itumbiara

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Location of the municipality of Itumbiara in the state of Goiás / Brazil

Itumbiara

Location of the city of Itumbiara in Goiás

Basic data

State :

Brazil (BRA)

Administrative structure :

Midwest

State :

Goiás (GO)

Mesoregion :

South Goiás

Microregion :

Meia Ponte

Geographic location :

18 ° 25 ′ S , 49 ° 13 ′ W Coordinates: 18 ° 25 ′ S , 49 ° 13 ′ W

Distance to Goiânia :

197 km

Time zone :

UTC -3
summer : UTC-2

Height :

448 m

Area :

2,461.280 km²

Residents :

92,942

Population density :

37.8 inhabitants / km²

Telephone code :

+55 64

Post code ( CEP ):

75500-000

City administration address:

Preifeitura Municipal
Rua Paranaíba, 117
75530-020 Itumbiara - GO

Official Website:

www.itumbiara.go.gov.br/

E-mail address:

gabpref@itumbiara.go.gov.br

Anniversary:

October 12th

Church planting:

1909

politics

Mayor :

José Gomes da Rocha ( PP ), (2009–2012)

Vice Mayor:

Rio Paranaíba with Araporã (middle) and Itumbiara (right), looking southwest

Itumbiara is a Brazilian political municipality in the state of Goiás in the mesoregion South Goiás and in the microregion Meia Ponte . It is located southwest of the Brazilian capital Brasília and south of the capital Goiânia .

The municipality of Itumbiara also includes the localities of Santa Rosa da Meia Ponte, Campo Limpo and Sarandi.

Geographical location

Itumbiara is located on the longitudinal federal road BR-153 ( Portuguese : Rodovia Transbrasiliana ) 197 km south of Goiânia on the border with the state of Minas Gerais north of the Rio Paranaíba and west of the dam of the Itumbiara reservoir .

Itumbiara borders on the municipalities (microregion):

In the north on Panamá and selectively on Goiatuba (both in Meia Ponte)
In the northeast at Buriti Alegre (Meia Ponte)
To the southeast at Tupaciguara ( Uberlândia , MG )
In the south at Araporã , Centralina , Canápolis (all in Uberlândia, MG), Cachoeira Dourada ( Ituiutaba , MG)
In the southwest on Cachoeira Dourada and Inaciolândia (both in Meia Ponte)
In the northwest at Bom Jesus de Goiás (Meia Ponte)

Hydrography

The Rio Paranaíba forms the southern border from Itumbiara to the state of Minas Gerais with the following tributaries on the territory of Itumbiara:

Bodies of water in Itumbiara	muzzle	description
Itumbiara reservoir	Rio Paranaíba at the dam	east of the city of Itumbiara
Rebeirão de Santa Maria	as the right tributary into the Rio Paranaíba east of the city of Itumbiara	In the upper reaches border waters to Panamá
Riberão Panamá	as the right tributary into the Rio Meia Ponte	in the lower reaches of the mouth as border waters to Cachoeira Dourada
Rio Meia Ponte	as the right tributary into the Rio Paranaíba in Cachoeira Dourada	In the north as border waters to Bom Jesus de Goiás
Riberão Bom Jesus	as a right tributary into the Rio dos Bois	Boundary waters to Bom Jesus de Goiás
Riberão do Campo Alegre	as a right tributary into the Rio dos Bois	Source in Itumbiara
Rio Paranaíba	in the Ilha Solteira reservoir with the Rio Grande to the Rio Paraná	In the east as the Itumbiara reservoir, after the dam as the southern border river to Minas Gerais to Cachoeira Dourada

economy

Agriculture is very important in Itumbiara, especially the cultivation of grain , soy , rice , sorghum , sugar cane and cotton . Cattle breeding ( poultry , cattle , pigs ) and milk production and processing are just as widespread.

history

Itumbiara came into being in 1824, when the proposed connection road between the mining town of Uberaba in Minas Gerais and the town of Annexuera on the border river Paranaíba and Goiás was completed on the initiative of the then commander of Goiás, Cunha Matos . Thanks to favorable conditions for agriculture and animal husbandry, the area was settled and the government set up a customs post at this point. Soon the Santa Rita chapel was built so that the place was called "Porto de Santa Rita", popularly just "Porto".

During the reign of President Afonso Pena in 1909, the suspension bridge over the Paranaíba River , which still exists today, was inaugurated and Santa Rita do Paranaíba was elevated to a parish. The engineer Inácio Pais Leme, designer of the 40 km long road between Santa Rita do Paranaíba and Cachoeira Dourada, launched the idea in 1943 to rename the community into "Itumbiara", which in the Tupi-Guarani language means "caminho da cachoeira" (German: way to the waterfall ) means. This proposal was approved by the government and implemented on December 31, 1943.

In 1966 the city became the seat of the Itumbiara diocese .