Sete Quedas (Mato Grosso do Sul)

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Município de Sete Quedas
Sete Quedas
Sete Quedas (Brazil)
Sete Quedas
Sete Quedas
Coordinates 23 ° 58 ′  S , 55 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 23 ° 58 ′  S , 55 ° 2 ′  W
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founding May 13, 1980 (founding decree)
June 22, 1981 (becoming a town)Template: Infobox location in Brazil / maintenance
Basic data
Country Brazil
State Mato Grosso do Sul
Mesoregion Sudoeste de Mato Grosso do Sul
Microregion Iguatemi
structure 1 multiple district
height 407 m
climate Cfa, subtropical
surface 825.9 km²
Residents 10,780 (2010)
density 13.1  Ew. / km²
estimate 10,812 Ew. (July 1, 2018 )
Time zone UTC −4
politics
City Prefect Francisco Piroli (2017-2020)
Political party PSDB
HDI 0.614 (2010)

Sete Quedas , officially Município de Sete Quedas , is a city founded in 1980 in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul in the Central-West region . It is 470 km from the capital Campo Grande and border town with Paraguay . The population was estimated on July 1, 2018 at 10,812 inhabitants, called Setequedenses (Portuguese setequedenses ), who live in an area of ​​around 826 km². The population density is around 12 people per km². The urban area covers only 2.5 km².

geography

The landscape and climate are those of the Brazilian Cerrado . The climate is subtropical, according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification Cfa . The height above sea level is 407 meters. The place is under the influence of the northern Rio-de-La-Plata basin. The biome is that of the Mata Atlântica .

Surrounding places are Tacuru , Paranhos , Japorã and Corpus Christi in Paraguay.

history

The place is the result of a colonization project from 1973 by the Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA). It was first elevated to a district, the Distrito de Sete Quedas , by Law No. 3.765 of June 30, 1976 , and was located in Mato Grosso . The Município was created by law No. 73 of May 13, 1980 and was now part of the new state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but only after the necessary elections for the city council and mayor, the place was inaugurated and independent on June 22, 1981.

City administration

Executive: In the local elections in 2016 , Francisco Piroli was appointed city prefect (mayor) for the period from 2017 to 2020. He is a member of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (PSDB).

The legislature lies with a 9-member city council, the vereadores of the Câmara Municipal, and in 2017 the presidency was with Paulo Chagas (PR).

The community forms a multiple district.

population

Source: IBGE (2018 figures are only estimates). In 2010, 26% of the population were children and adolescents up to the age of 15. In 2010, 83.25% lived in urban areas and 16.75% in extensive rural areas. In 2010, the illiteracy rate among adults over the age of 25 was 23.4%.

Population development:

economy

The main sources of income are cattle farming, soybeans, corn and cassava.

Standard of living

The human development index for cities, abbreviated HDI (Portuguese: IDH-M ), was at the low value of 0.393 in 1991 and at the medium value of 0.614 in 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Mato Grosso do Sul: Sete Quedas> Panorama. Retrieved September 20, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. a b Estimativas da população residente no Brasil e unidades da federação com data de referência em 1 ° de julho de 2018. (PDF; 2.6 MB) In: ibge.gov.br. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), 2018, accessed September 20, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. Chico Piroli 45. In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed January 24, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ^ A b Atlas do Desenvolvimento Humano do Brasil: Sete Quedas. Retrieved January 24, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).