Paulo Afonso

Município de Paulo Afonso "Capital da Energia" "Cidade da Água" Paulo Afonso
Satellite image by Paulo Afonso
Paulo Afonso
Coordinates	9 ° 25 ′  S , 38 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 9 ° 25 ′  S , 38 ° 14 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Bahia
Symbols
coat of arms flag
founding	July 28, 1958 (town charter) (age 62)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Bahia
height	243 m
Waters	Rio Sao Francisco
climate	Steppe climate, BSh
surface	1,545.2 km²
Residents	108,396 (2010)
density	70.2  Ew. / km²
estimate	117,782 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 2924009
Post Code	48608-000
Telephone code	(+55)  75
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	pauloafonso.ba (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Luiz de Deus (2017-2020)
Political party	Psd
economy
GDP	2,267,981  thousand R $ 18,911 R $ per person  (2016)
HDI	0.674 (medium) (2010)

Paulo Afonso , officially Portuguese Município de Paulo Afonso , is a city in the north of the Brazilian state of Bahia . The population was estimated as of July 1, 2019 at 117,782 inhabitants, who live in a community area of ​​around 1545.2 km² and are called Paulo-Afonsinos. The calculated population density is 67 people per km², but over 86% are concentrated in the urban core. It ranks 15th out of the state's 417 municipalities. The distance to the capital Salvador de Bahia is 434 km.

history

Cachoeira de Paulo Afonso, painting by Frans Post , 1649

The sertanista and land explorer Paulo Viveiros Afonso laid the foundation stone in 1725. The place, which was under the larger municipality of Glória , received self-government rights as a municipality on July 28, 1958. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Paulo Afonso .

Here you will find the Paulo Afonso Falls , a waterfall, the Paulo Afonso hydropower complex , a system of three dams and five hydropower plants on the Rio São Francisco , which is used to generate electricity. In economic terms, the municipality was in 19th place of the municipalities in Bahia in 2016 and 378th of the 5570 municipalities in Brazil.

geography

Surrounding municipalities are the municipalities of Santa Brígida , Rodelas , Glória and Jeremoabo in Bahia , the municipality Delmiro Gouveia in Alagoas and Sergipe Canindé de São Francisco .

The biome is the steppe land of the Caatinga . The territory is characterized by plateaus and valleys .

climate

The community has a steppe climate with little precipitation, BSh according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 25.8 ° C. The average rainfall is 540 mm per year.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Paulo Afonso

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Temperature ( ° C )	27.5	27.6	26.6	25.5	24.4	23.4	23.3	24.2	25.7	27.1	27.8	27.0	O	25.8
Precipitation ( mm )	49	41	83	66	66	60	51	26th	15th	8th	29	48	Σ	540

Local government

The executive rests with the city prefect (mayor). In the local elections in 2016 , the former Federal MP for Bahia Luiz de Deus of the Partido Social Democrático (PSD) was elected city prefect for the period from 2017 to 2020. He had been elected mayor in 1988.

The legislature rests with a 15-member elected city council, the vereadores of the Câmara Municipal.

Population development

year	Residents	city	country
1960	25,259	19,499	5,760
1970	46.126	38,346	7,780
1980	71,137	61,965	9,172
1991	86,619	74,355	12,264
2000	96,499	82,584	13,915
2010	108,396	93,404	14,992
2019	117,782	?	?

Source: IBGE (2011)

Average income and standard of living

In 2017, the average monthly income was 2.2 times the Brazilian minimum wage ( Salário mínimo ) of R $ 880.00 (income converted for 2019: around € 438 per month). The human development index (HDI) is classified as average at 0.674 for 2010.

In 2017, 16,371 people or 13.6% of the population were registered as permanently employed; 43.6% of the population had an income of half the minimum wage in 2010.

Almost 13,000 families received support through the Bolsa Família social program in October 2019 . The above-average tax income from the hydropower plant and the associated production facilities has little impact on the community's social conditions.

HDI
year				Points
1991			0.429
2000			0.551
2010			0.674

The gross national product per capita in 2016 was R $ 18,910.87, the gross national product of the municipality was R $ 2,267,980.67 thousand in 2016.

education

Illiteracy rate

Paulo Afonso had an illiteracy rate of 35.9% in 1991 (including incomplete primary education), which had already fallen to 20.6% in the 2010 census. Around 25.8% of the population in 2010 were children and adolescents up to the age of 15.

Illiteracy rate
year				percent
1991			35.89
2000			28.30
2010			20.64

Ethnic composition

Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (as of 2000 with 96,499, as of 2010 with 108,396 inhabitants):

group	Share 2000	Share 2010	annotation
Pardos	54,701	▲ 65,785	Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos
Brancos	36,397	▼ 34,729	Whites, descendants of Europeans
Pretus	4,503	▲ 5,830	black
Amarelos	179	▲ 1,009	Asians
Indigenous people	424	▲ 1,043	indigenous population
without specification	295	-

sons and daughters of the town

• Jovina Maria da Conceição Souto (1915–2008), Cangaceira, member of the infamous gang of Virgulino Ferreira da Silva , known as Lampião, and Maria Bonita

• Ze Soares (born 1983), football player

Web links

Commons : Paulo Afonso  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Paulo Afonso - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed November 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ↑ Paulo Afonso climate: average temperature, weather by month, Paulo Afonso weather averages - Climate-Data.org. In: de.climate-data.org. Retrieved November 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Luiz de Deus 55 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed November 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
4. ↑ Vereadores. In: www.cmpa.ba.gov.br. Câmara Municipal de Paulo Afonso, accessed November 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
5. ^ ^{A b} Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humao no Brasil: Paulo Afonso, BA . Retrieved November 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese)
6. ↑ Censos demográficos do IBGE (1872-2010). Evolução da divisão territorial do Brasil 1872-2010. (Online; PDF; 125.3 MB)
7. ↑ Paulo Afonso - Panorama - Trabalho e rendimento. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed November 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
8. ↑ Relatório do Bolsa Família e Cadastro Único: Paulo Afonso / BA , accessed on November 21, 2019 (database query with place names, Brazilian Portuguese).
9. ↑ Paulo Afonso - Produto Interno Bruto dos Municipios. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed November 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
10. ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Accessed on November 21, 2019 (Portuguese, database query, search terms Paulo Afonso (BA) and Cor ou raça).