Senador Guiomard

Município de Senador Guiomard "Quinari" Senador Guiomard
City gate by Senador Guiomard
Senador Guiomard
Coordinates	10 ° 9 ′  S , 67 ° 44 ′  W Coordinates: 10 ° 9 ′  S , 67 ° 44 ′  W
Location of Senador Guiomard in the state of Acre
Symbols
coat of arms flag
founding	May 14, 1963
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	acre
Região intermediária	Rio Branco (since 2017)
Região imediata	Rio Branco (since 2017)
Mesoregion	Vale do Acre (1989-2017)
Microregion	Rio Branco (1989-2017)
height	201 m
surface	2,321.5 km²
Residents	20,179 (2010)
density	8.7  Ew. / km²
estimate	23,024 Ew. (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 1200450
Time zone	UTC -5
Website	senadorguiomard.ac (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Andre Luis Tavares da Cruz Maia (2017-2020)
Political party	Psd
economy
GDP	248,193  thousand. R $ 12,317  R $ per capita (2010)
HDI	0.640 (2010)

Senador Guiomard , officially Município de Senador Guiomard , is a small town in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Acre with around 23,000 inhabitants, who are called Guiomarenser. It is the seventh largest city in Acre in terms of population. It is located 24 km northeast of the capital Rio Branco and borders the state of Amazonas in the north . She is known for growing peanuts .

Toponymy

The place was named in honor of the former Governor of Acre and Senator José Guiomard dos Santos .

history

In the 1930s, several families in the eastern Acre were quinarizinhos , collectors of quinine-containing bark, and created a settlement core. In 1947 a connection road to Rio Branco was built and in 1956 the hamlet was raised to the category of a Vila and named Vila Grande Quinari in 1957 . At the time, Acre was still a largely undeveloped federal territory. In 1959 the first Japanese settler families came to Senador Guiomard and introduced the cultivation of peanuts there. In the 1970s, government resettlement programs increased the population from southeastern Brazil to the north. The establishment of new cities in Acre is closely linked to the drive for autonomy, Acre became a federal state, and on May 14, 1963 the city received the status of Município de Senador Guiomard with self-government.

The city is known as the "place of peanuts ". Every year the municipality organizes a popular "peanut party", the Festa do amendoim .

location

The area is 2,321.454 km² (as of 2015), the population density in 2010 was 8.69 inhabitants per km².

In the north the city borders on the state of Amazonas, in the southwest lies Rio Branco, in the east and northeast it borders on Plácido de Castro and Acrelândia .

City administration

City prefect (mayor) is Andre Luis Tavares da Cruz Maia of the Partido Social Democrático (PSD) for the term of office 2017 to 2020 , who won the local elections in 2016 with 4,533 votes.

population

According to the 2010 IBGE census, the population was 20,179. The number was estimated by the IBGE as of July 1, 2019 at 23,024 residents.

In 2010 it was distributed to 12,703 people in the (urban) local area and 7476 people in the extensive rural area.

Population development

Source: IBGE (data for 1996, 2007 and 2019 are only estimates)

Infrastructure

From Rio Branco the state road AC-040 leads to Senador Guiomard and from there the road 317 connects to Boca do Acre in the state of Amazonas. The closest international airport is in the capital, Rio Branco. Via the neighboring town of Acrelândia there is a connection through the BR-364 to the state of Rondônia .

economy

Economic sectors
sector				percent
service			43%
Agriculture			35%
Industry			22%
rounded, source: IBGE

With a 35% share in economic activity, agriculture has the highest share in urban social product.

Share of GDP
sector				Thousand real
Agriculture			92,863
service			58,779
Industry			43,997
Source: IBGE, 2014

With ZPE do Acre, Senador Guiomard has one of Brazil's 24 free trade zones , a Zona de Processamento de Exportação (ZPE).

Together with the surrounding communities of Acrelândia , Bujari , Capixaba , Plácido de Castro , Rio Branco and Porto Acre , it forms the statistical-geographical micro-region Rio Branco , one of the three micro-regions of the mesoregion Vale do Acre .

Religions

number	Religious community
9,827	Roman Catholic
6,855	Evangelical-Protestant
49	Spiritualists
Source: IBGE 2010

The largest religious community is formed by the supporters of the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil , followed by supporters of the Evangelical-Protestant faith. Senador Guiomard belongs to the diocese of Rio Branco .

literature

• Governo do Estado do Acre: Acre em números 2013 . Rio Branco 2013. Retrieved January 1, 2017 (PDF; 34.3 MB; Brazilian Portuguese).

Web links

Commons : Senador Guiomard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IBGE: Cidades @ Acre: Senador Guiomard - histórico. Retrieved January 2, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
2. ↑ Posse do Prefeito Eleito 2017 - Candidatos a Prefeito 2016 - SENADOR GUIOMARD AC. Retrieved January 2, 2017 (Portuguese).
3. ↑ ^{a b} IBGE: Cidades @ Acre: Senador Guiomard. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
4. ↑ Associação Brasileira de Zonas de Processamento de Exportação (ABRAZPE): FAQs . Retrieved January 2, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
5. ^ Diocese de Rio Branco. Retrieved January 2, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).