Paragominas

Município de Paragominas "Município verde" Paragominas
Lago Verde (2017)
Coordinates	3 ° 0 ′  S , 47 ° 21 ′  W Coordinates: 3 ° 0 ′  S , 47 ° 21 ′  W
Location of Paragominas in the state of Pará
Symbols
coat of arms flag
Motto "Trabalho perseverante - Progresso com honra" Persistent work - progress with honor
founding	January 23, 1965
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Pará
Região intermediária	Castanhal (since 2017)
Região imediata	Paragominas (since 2017)
structure	31 bairros
height	90 m
Waters	Rio Uraim, Rio Prainha
climate	Am, tropical rainforest climate
surface	19,342.3 km²
Residents	97,819 (2010)
density	5.1  Ew. / km²
estimate	111,764 (July 1, 2018)
Parish code	IBGE : 1505502
Post Code	68625-001 to 68631-999
Telephone code	(+55)  91
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	www.paragominas.pa.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Paulo Pombo Tocantins (2017-2020)
Political party	Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB)
Culture
Patron saint	Sacred Heart of Jesus
HDI	0.645 (2010)

Paragominas , officially Portuguese Município de Paragominas , is a city in the state of Pará in Brazil . The Paragominas mine , one of the largest bauxite mines in the world, is around 70 km away . The city has 111,764 inhabitants according to an estimate as of July 1, 2018 and is 90 m above sea level. M. With a community area of ​​around 19,342 km², roughly the size of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , the population density is 5.7 inhabitants per km². The distance to the capital Belém is 300 km.

Since 2011 it has been allowed to call itself Município Verde (Green City or Eco City).

Toponymy

The city name is a string of abbreviations of the three states Pará, Goiás and Minas Gerais ("Para-Go-Minas"), from which the majority of the first settlers came. The outlines of the three states can also be found in the city arms (with the historical outline of Goiás including the Tocantins, which split off in 1988 ).

history

Two events led to the founding of the city since the end of the 1950s: the construction of the BR-010 federal road from Brasília to Belém, during which a number of new cities were founded, and the discovery of bauxite deposits, which resulted in internal migration from Goiás, Minas Gerais , Pará, Maranhão and the southern state of São Paulo . As part of a populism of the Fourth Republic under President Juscelino Kubitschek , the hinterland was to be developed economically, which was also continued under the military dictatorship. New colonization societies were founded, but some of them did not take effect. Instead, land robbers ( grileiros ) often took possession of the territory, whether with valid or forged proof of ownership. Today around 7% of the municipal area is still not recorded in a cadastre .

The governor Jarbas Gonçalves Passarinho , who was installed in Pará by the military dictatorship , signed the law "Lei Estadual 3.235" of January 4, 1965, and the new city was founded on January 23 by spinning off areas from Viseu , Ourém and São Domingos do Capim . The growing timber industry, mining, public road construction, the beginning of cattle breeding and soybean cultivation attracted further settlers.

Amílcar Batista Tocantis was appointed first mayor. The city plan shows planned city elements, so the center has two adjacent squares made of regular hexagons, from which the streets radiate out. The city is divided by the federal highway PA-125 , the BR-010 runs further west of the urban center past Paragominas. In 1983, a second district was set up in the southern municipal area, named after the Senate President Filinto Müller . In 1988 the district became the independent Município Dom Eliseu , named after the Bishop Eliseu Maria Coroli and, in connection with a larger loss of land, spun off from Paragominas. Paragominas now ranks first in its economic geographic region.

Since 2008, the city, previously a symbol of forest destruction, has endeavored to reforest and improve environmental protection by participating in the “Green City” program. In 2011, the proportion of the undamaged forest area was around 53% of the municipal area.

climate

The city has a tropical climate on by Köppen-Geiger . The average temperature is 26.6 ° C. The average rainfall is 1805 mm per year.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Paragominas

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temperature ( ° C )	26.3	26.3	26.3	26.6	26.5	26.3	26.5	26.8	26.9	27.1	27.2	26.9	O	26.6
Precipitation ( mm )	240	316	391	304	149	66	29	36	37	56	60	121	Σ	1805

City administration

The executive for the 2017 to 2020 term of office lies with Paulo Pombo Tocantins from the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB), who was successful as city prefect (mayor) with 34,375 votes in the 2016 local elections and has held the office since 2012. He is the son of the first mayor, Amílcar Batista Tocantis.

The legislature lies with a city council (Câmara Municipal) made up of 13 elected city councilors (vereadores).

The municipality forms only one district with Paragominas as the seat. The urban area of ​​the municipality is divided into 31 bairros.

Population development

Source: IBGE (data for 2018 is only an estimate).

Ethnic composition

Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE:

group	1991	2000	2010	annotation
Pardos (mixed race)	48,521	49.139	66,928	Mulattos , mestizos
Brancos	15,167	20.051	20,215	Whites, descendants of Europeans
Pretus	2,948	5,313	8,705	black
Amarelos	26th	390	887	Asians
Indigenous people	152	806	1,084	indigenous population
without specification	262	752	-

Attractions

The city's attractions include the Parque Ambiental Adhemar Monteiro and the man-made lake Lago Verde . Public holidays are January 23 (founding day) and June 15 for the patron saint.

Sports

Paragominas has the some 10,000 guests, the sports stadium Estádio Arena do Municipio Verde , home to the state championship of Pará playing Paragominas Futebol Clube .

literature

• Governo do Pará, Secretaria de Estado de Turismo: Inventário da oferta turística do município de Paragomina - PA . Belém 2016 (Brazilian Portuguese, gov.br [PDF]).

Web links

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

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• IBGE : Paragominas> Panorama , statistical information (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Mapa de Paragominas, Pará. In: com.br. www.cidade-brasil.com.br, accessed April 1, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Estimativas da população residente no Brasil e unidades da federação com data de referência em 1 ° de julho de 2018. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: ibge.gov.br. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} PMV - Programa Municípios Verdes: Relatórios: Ficha Resumo: Paragominas. In: gov.br. www.municipiosverdes.pa.gov.br, accessed April 1, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ^ Instituto de Desenvolvimento Econômico-Social do Pará: Novos Municípios Paraenses: Dom Eliseu. Belém, 1990.
4. ↑ Climate data , accessed on March 31, 2018.
5. ↑ Paulinho. In: eleicoesepolitica.net. Retrieved April 1, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Paragominas PA | Candidatos a Vereador em 2016. In: eleicoesepolitica.net. Retrieved April 1, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Table 200: População residente, por sexo, situação e grupos de idade - Amostra - Características Gerais da População. In: gov.br. sidra.ibge.gov.br, accessed April 1, 2018 .  
8. ↑ Tabela 136: População residente, por cor ou raça. In: gov.br. sidra.ibge.gov.br, accessed April 1, 2018 .