Rondonópolis

Município de Rondonópolis "Cidade Marechal Rondon" "Roo" "Princesinha do Sul" Rondonópolis
Rondonópolis by night
Coordinates	16 ° 28 ′  S , 54 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 28 ′  S , 54 ° 38 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Mato Grosso
Symbols
coat of arms flag
founding	December 10, 1953 (town charter) August 10, 1915 (settlement decree)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Mato Grosso
Região intermediária	Rondonópolis (since 2017)
Região imediata	Rondonópolis (since 2017)
height	227 m
Waters	Rio Vermelho
climate	tropical, Aw
surface	4,686.6 km²
Residents	195,476 (2010)
density	41.7  Ew. / km²
estimate	228,857 (July 1, 2018)
Parish code	IBGE : 5107602
Time zone	UTC -4
Website	www.rondonopolis.mt.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Zé Carlos do Pátio (2017-2020)
Political party	SD
Culture
Patron saint	John the Baptist
economy
GDP	9,418,111  thousand. R $ 43,025  R $ per capita (2016)
HDI	0.755 (2010)
Rondonópolis Town Hall

Rondonópolis , officially Município de Rondonópolis , is a city in the south of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso with 195,476 inhabitants (2010 census). As of July 1, 2018, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) estimated the population at 228,857 residents, who are called Rondonopolitans ( rondonopolitanos ). Due to the very large area of ​​the municipality, the population density is calculated at 47 inhabitants per km².

Rondonópolis is the economic and supply center and administrative seat of the Southeast Mato Grosso region and has been the seat of the Rondonópolis-Guiratinga diocese since 1959 . The distance to the capital Cuiabá is 227 km.

location

Rondonópolis was founded on the banks of the Rio Vermelho , a tributary of the Rio São Lourenço . The city center is at an altitude of 227 m. In 2010 the municipal area extended over 4159.118 km², in 2018 4686.622 km² were announced. The urban area of ​​the place itself is 38.7 km².

Neighboring cities

The municipality of Rondonópolis borders directly on the following cities: Juscimeira , Poxoréo , Itiquira , São José do Povo , Pedra Preta and Santo Antônio do Leverger .

Natural space

Rondonópolis is located in the highlands of Mato Grosso (Planalto do Mato Grosso) in the transition from the humid savannah (Campos cerrados) to the tropical rainforest . The extensive swamps of the Pantanal connect to the southwest . The floor is partly covered with Terra Roxa Estruturada .

history

On August 10, 1915, a settlement was established on the Rio Vermelho by decree. The settlement, the core of the future city, was named in 1918 after the Brazilian pioneer and later Marshal Cândido Rondon . Rondonópilis received city rights as a self-governing municipality on December 10, 1953.

Since the 1940s, Rondonópolis has been growing steadily through immigration from the other states in the mid-west of Brazil.

City administration

City prefect (head of the executive ) for the term 2013 to 2016 was Percival Muniz of the Partido Popular Socialista (PPS) after the local elections in Brazil in 2012 . He lost to Zé Carlos do Pátio , a member of the Solidariedade (SD) party, in the local elections in Brazil in 2016 . His term of office as mayor lasts from 2017 to 2020.

The legislature lies with the Câmara Municipal, the city council, which is formed by 29 city councils ( vereadores ).

City structure

Rondonópolis is divided into numerous districts ( bairros ), the better known are: Cidade Alta, Cidade Salmen, Vila Verde, Jardim das Palmeiras, Jardim Serra Dourada, Jardim Eldorado, Jardim Ipanema, Jardim Itapuâ, Jardim Liberdade, Jardim Luz da Yara, Jardard , Jardim Mato Grosso, Jardim Padre Rodolfo, Jardim Pioneiros, Jardim Rui Balbosa, Jardim Sumaré, Planvile, Residencial Sagrada Família, Conjunto São José, Vila Esperança, Vila Rica, Vila Rosely, Vila Santo Antonio, Vila Operária, Jardim Carlos Bezerra, Cidimade de Deus, Bairro Ananias filho, Bairro João de Barro, Bairro Alfredo de Castro, Jardim Padre Lothar.

Population development

Since the late 1940s, there has been a steady increase in population. Rondonópolis is now the third largest city in the state of Mato Grosso.

• 1960: 022,554 pop.
• 1970: 062,551 pop.
• 1980: 082,293 pop.
• 1991: 126,082 pop.
• 2000: 150,227 pop.
• 2010: 195,476 pop.
• 2018: 228,857 pop. (Estimate)

Agriculture

The main crops of the agricultural area in the north are rice and cotton . Also, oil palms are common. Agriculture has been relying more and more on soy since the 1980s . Rondonópolis has since developed into a center of the soy processing industry. Particularly large parceled out fields are to be found southwest of the city.

traffic

State roads BR-163 and BR-364 meet in the center and connect the federal capital Brasília with the capitals Cuiabá in the north and Campo Grande ( Mato Grosso do Sul ) in the south.

sons and daughters of the town

• Wellington Fagundes (born 1957), politician
• Lindomar Garçon (* 1969), politician
• Lucio Mosquini (* 1969), engineer and politician
• Paulo Ferraz (* 1974), writer and literary scholar
• Zé Henrique (* 1975), part of the musical duo Zé Henrique e Gabriel
• Evangelista Santos (* 1977), mixed martial arts athlete
• Fábio Duarte (* 1980), football player
• Diogo Galvão de Macedo (* 1982), football player
• Jakelyne Oliveira (* 1993), model, Miss Brazil 2013

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  Wellington Fagundes (2015)

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  Lucio Mosquini (2012)

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  Zé Henrique (left)

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  Evangelista Santos (2010)

literature

• Luci Léa Martins Tesoro: Rondonópolis-MT. To entroncamento de mão única. LLLMT, São Paulo 1993.

Web links

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

• Prefeitura Municipal Rondonópolis website (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Câmara Municipal de Rondonópolis website (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Rondonópolis - Panorama. Retrieved July 3, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
2. ↑ Urbanização das cidades brasileiras. Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária , accessed July 30, 2008 . 
3. ↑ História de Rondonópolis on the website of the city prefecture. Retrieved September 18, 2014 (Brazilian Portuguese).
4. ↑ Eleições 2012: Percival Muniz on the website www.eleicoes2012.info . Retrieved September 18, 2014 (Brazilian Portuguese).
5. ↑ UOL Eleições 2016 Rondonópolis / MT: Apuração de votos, resultado, prefeito e vereadores eleitos. In: com.br. UOL , accessed July 5, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
6. ^ Bairros de Rondonópolis / MT. In: blog.br. 2014, accessed July 3, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).