Rondônia

Rondônia
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Basic data
Country	Brazil
Capital	Porto Velho
surface	238,512.8 km²
Residents	1,535,625 (2010)
density	6.4 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BR-RO
Website	www.rondonia.ro.gov.br
politics
governor	Marcos Rocha (2019-2023)
Political party	PSL
economy
GDP	39,451  million  R $ 22,073  R $ per capita (2016)

Coordinates: 11 °  S , 63 °  W

Rondônia , officially Portuguese Estado de Rondônia , is a federal state in the north of Brazil . The capital of Rondônia is Porto Velho .

geography

Rondônia borders the Brazilian states of Amazonas , Acre and Mato Grosso as well as Bolivia . It belongs to the Brazilian greater Norte region .

In 2010 Rondônia had an area of ​​around 238,513 km², slightly more than Romania and significantly more than Great Britain . With 1.54 million inhabitants (2010) the population density was 6.4 per km². The population was estimated at 1,777,225 inhabitants as of July 1, 2019, the area was around 237,765 km² in 2018, about 748 km² less than in the last survey in 2010.

history

Rondônia was created as a result of a development project sponsored by the Brazilian government since the 1970s. In 1981 the area was made a state. Before that, the area inhabited by the Guaporé Indians was hardly known.

On September 13, 1943, Law No. 5.812 established the Território Federal do Guaporé , the German federal territory of Guaporé . It became on February 17, 1956 in honor of Cândido Rondon by law No. 21.731 to the Território Federal de Rondôndia , German federal territory of Rondônia . On January 4, 1982, Rondônia became a state of its own and determines its own politics.

The new state is named after the Brazilian researcher, surveyor and telegraph line builder Cândido Rondon, who was accompanied by Theodore Roosevelt , the former US President, on an expedition to northern Mato Grosso in 1913 .

politics

See also : List of Governors of Rondônia

Marcos Rocha of the right-wing Partido Social Liberal (PSL) has been governor since the 2018 elections in Brazil for the 2019-2023 term of office .

The legislature lies with the Legislative Assembly of Rondônia ( Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de Rondônia ) with 24 elected representatives.

economy

Rondônia's economic livelihood is primarily the use of the tropical rainforest . For wood extraction and the creation of plantations, tropical forests have been and are being converted en masse, and much rainforest is being destroyed by overexploitation . So far, around 25 percent of the state's forests have been cleared. In addition to the wood industry, mining is an important branch of the country's economy with the extraction of tin ore, but also gold, iron ore, manganese and precious stones. Until 2000, the population grew rapidly due to the influx from the poor Brazilian northeast. In the meantime, growth has weakened significantly and is in line with the Brazilian average.

Indigenous emissions trading

In the last few decades, resistance against the overexploitation of nature began to rise among the indigenous population. Members of the Suruí (Paiter) tribe are defending themselves against wood thieves with the help of the Internet, Google Earth and GPS, and in 2007 they began planning to enter into international emissions trading . After the necessary certifications, the first Brazilian domestic emission certificate sale of 120,000 tons to the cosmetics group Natura took place in September 2013 .

Cities

→ Main article : List of municipalities in Rondônia

The ten most populous of the 52 cities in Rondônia are according to the 2010 census and the IBGE's population estimate as of July 1, 2019 :

	local community	2010 census	Estimated July 1, 2019
01	Porto Velho	428,527	529.544 ▲
02	Ji-Paraná	116,610	128,969 ▲
03	Ariquemes	90.353	107,863 ▲
04 / ↓ 5	Cacoal	78,574	85,359 ▲
05 / ↑ 4	Vilhena	76.202	99,854 ▲
06 / ↓ 7	Jaru	52.005	51,775 ▼
07 / ↑ 6	Rolim de Moura	50,648	55,058 ▲
08th	Guajará-Mirim	41,656	46.174 ▲
09 / ↓ 10	Ouro Preto do Oeste	37,928	36,035 ▼
10 / ↑ 9	Pimenta Bueno	33,822	36,660 ▲

Web links

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

• Rondônia Government website (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Rondônia Legislative Assembly website (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Detailed information about Rondônia. In: brasilienportal.ch. (German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rondônia - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed September 5, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ↑ Contas Regionais 2016: entre as 27 unidades da federação, somente Roraima teve crescimento do PIB. In: gov.br. IBGE , Agência de Notícias, November 16, 2016, accessed July 29, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ História. In: al.ro.leg.br. Assembleia Legislativa do Estado de Rondônia, accessed May 29, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
4. ↑ Indios Paiter-Surui usam tecnologia para manter as tradições e lutar contra ameaças na Amazônia. Speech Sustentabilidade, September 11, 2013, accessed April 10, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
5. ^ Juliane von Mittelstaedt: Brazil: The global Indian. In: Der Spiegel 21/2010, May 22, 2010, pp. 86–89: “The Surui people are fighting against the deforestation of their rainforest: not with a bow and arrow, but with the Internet, GPS and Google Earth. It plans to enter global emissions trading soon ”.
6. ↑ Índios suruí concluem 1ª venda de créditos de carbono indígenas do país . globo.com G1 - Natureza, September 12, 2013 (Brazilian Portuguese, globo.com [accessed April 10, 2018]).
7. ↑ Relatório de implementação do Projeto de Carbono Florestal Suruí . Cacoal September 2014 (Brazilian Portuguese, amazonaws.com [PDF; accessed April 10, 2018]).
8. ↑ IBGE : Estados @ Rondônia - Panorama . Retrieved September 21, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).