Piracanjuba

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the fish, see Brycon orbignyanus .

Piracanjuba
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Piracanjuba municipality in the state of Goiás Piracanjuba Location of the small town of Piracanjuba in Goiás
Basic data
State :	Brazil (BRA)
Administrative structure :	Midwest
State :	Goiás (GO)
Mesoregion :	South Goiás
Microregion :	Meia Ponte
Adjacent municipalities:	Bela Vista de Goiás , Cristianópolis , Santa Cruz de Goiás , Caldas Novas , Morrinhos , Mairipotaba , Professor Jamil , Hidrolândia
Distance to Goiânia :	87 km
Geographic location :	17 ° 18 ′  S , 49 ° 1 ′  W Coordinates: 17 ° 18 ′  S , 49 ° 1 ′  W
Time zone :	UTC -3 summer : UTC-2
Area :	2,405.114 km²
Residents :	24,033
Population density :	10.0 inhabitants / km²
Height :	753  m
Post code ( CEP ):	75640-000
Telephone code :	+55 62
City administration address:	Pça. Wilson Eloy Pimenta, 100 Setor Centro
Official website:
Anniversary:	November 18
Church planting:	1886
politics
Mayor :	Ricardo de Pina Cabral ( PP ), 2009–2012
Vice Mayor:

Piracanjuba is a Brazilian political municipality and small town in the state of Goías in the Meia Ponte microregion .

The community name is of indigenous origin and means about "yellow-headed fish" ( Brycon orbignyanus ). In the Tupi language , pira stands for fish , acanga or acã for head and yuba for yellow, blond .

Geographical location

Piracanjuba borders

• to the north at Bela Vista de Goiás
• to the east at Cristianópolis and Santa Cruz de Goiás
• to the south at Caldas Novas and Morrinhos
• in the southwest at Mairipotaba
• in the west to Professor Jamil
• in the northwest Hidrolândia

The municipal area drains south into the Paraná basin . The two largest rivers are the Rio Meia Ponte in the west as the right tributary into the Rio Paranaíba and in the east the Rio Piracanjuba as the right tributary into the Itumbiara reservoir .

See also

• Municipalities in the Meia Ponte microregion
• Mesoregions and micro-regions in Goiás

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. (Portuguese) 
2. ↑ First results of the 2010 census in Goiás (PDF; 30 kB), carried out by IBGE .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Federacão Goiana de Municípios: Data from Piracanjuba  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 10, 2011  
4. ↑ ^{a b} IBGE : History of Piracanjuba (PDF; 10 kB), accessed October 11, 2011