Santa Rosa do Purus

Município de Santa Rosa do Purus Santa Rosa do Purus
View from Rio Purus to Santa Rosa do Purus
Santa Rosa do Purus
Coordinates	9 ° 26 ′  S , 70 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 9 ° 26 ′  S , 70 ° 30 ′  W
Location of Santa Rosa do Purus in the state of Acre
founding	April 28, 1992 Effective January 1, 1993
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	acre
Mesoregion	Vale do Acre (1989-2017)
Microregion	Sena Madureira (1989-2017)
height	25 m
Waters	Rio Purus
surface	6,145.6 km²
Residents	4691 (2010)
density	0.8  Ew. / km²
estimate	6540 Ew. (July 1, 2019)
Time zone	UTC -5
Website	www.santarosadopurus.ac.cnm.org.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Francisco de Assis (2017-2020)
Political party	PSDB
Culture
Patron saint	Holy Rosa of Lima
City festival	April 28
economy
GDP	35,735 thousand R $ 7749  R $ per person  (2010)
HDI	0.517 (2010 (low) )
Church in Santa Rosa do Purus

Santa Rosa do Purus , officially Município de Santa Rosa do Purus , is a small town in the central region of the Brazilian state of Acre . It is 300 km away from the state capital Rio Branco . The population was estimated at 6540 inhabitants in 2018, who are called Santarosensians. It is a border town with Peru .

geography

The landscape and climate are those of the Amazon rainforest . The area is 6145.612 km² (2016; previously calculated 5981.137 km²), which results in a population density of less than one person per km² (0.8 / Ew. / Km²). It forms a green border with Peru .

The main traffic routes are the rivers, in the more distant Manoel Urbano there is a traffic connection through the diagonal federal road BR-364 . The runway of the Aeroporto de Santa Rosa do Purus (ICAO: SDOE) is located on the Fazenda Sibéria .

history

The place was initially a pier on the Rio Purus, from which the Vila de Santa Rosa do Purus developed. The area belonged to Manoel Urbano and was spun off as an independent Município by Law No. 1028 of April 28, 1992 .

City administration

The municipality forms a single administrative district with Santa Rosa do Purus as its seat. For the executive branch, Francisco de Assis Fernandes da Costa (Assis Moura) by the Partido Republicano Progressista (PRP) was elected city prefect (mayor) in the local elections in 2016 .

Population development

Source: IBGE (data for 1996, 2007 and 2018 are only estimates). 46.19% of the population in 2010 were children and adolescents up to the age of 15.

economy

Share of GDP
sector				Thousand real
Agriculture			11,859
service			4,661
Industry			1,465
Source: IBGE, 2014

The human development index for cities, abbreviated HDI (Portuguese: IDH-M ) was at the very low value of 0.167 in 1991 and at the low value of 0.517 in 2010.

HDI
year				Points
1991			0.167
2000			0.277
2010			0.517

education

Santa Rosa do Purus still had an illiteracy rate of 80.4% in 1991 , which had already fallen to 31.3% in the 2010 census.

Illiteracy rate
year				percent
1991			80.3
2000			66.1
2010			31.3

In 2010 the IBGE indicates the existence of 53 primary school facilities and 3 medium school facilities in an area of ​​6145 km².

literature

• Governo do Estado do Acre: Acre em números 2013. Rio Branco 2013. (PDF; 3.74 MB; Brazilian Portuguese)

Web links

Commons : Santa Rosa do Purus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} IBGE : Cidades @ Acre: Santa Rosa do Purus - Panorama. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
2. ↑ Governo do Acre: Acre em números 2013. Rio Branco 2013, p. 113, p. 116.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil: Santa Rosa do Purus . Retrieved January 12, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
4. ↑ Posse do Prefeito Eleito 2017 - Candidatos a Prefeito 2016 - Santa Rosa do Purus AC. Retrieved January 8, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).