Vitória do Jari

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Município de Vitória do Jari
"Beiradinho"
Vitória do Jari
Vitória do Jari (Brazil)
Red pog.svg
Coordinates 0 ° 56 ′  S , 52 ° 25 ′  W Coordinates: 0 ° 56 ′  S , 52 ° 25 ′  W
Location of Vitória do Jari in the state of Amapá
Location of Vitória do Jari in the state of Amapá
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
flag
flag
Motto
"valorize o que é nosso"
founding September 8, 1994
Basic data
Country Brazil
State Amapá
Região intermediária Macapá (since 2017)
Região imediata Laranjal do Jari (since 2017)
Waters Rio Jari
climate Am, tropical
surface 2,482.6 km²
Residents 12,445 (2010)
density Ew. / km²
estimate 15,605 (July 1, 2018 )
Time zone UTC −3
Website www.vitoriadojari.ap.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect Raimundo de Alcimar Ney de Souza, called Dielson (2017-2020)
Political party Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT)
HDI 0.619 (2010)

Vitória do Jari , officially Município de Vitória do Jari , is a small town in the Brazilian state of Amapá in the Região Norte . It is located on the Rio Jari opposite the Porto de Munguba . The place is around 180 km from the capital Macapá . The population was estimated at 15,605 inhabitants on July 1, 2018. The inhabitants, who live on the approximately 2509 km² (2016) large area, are called Vitorenser (Portuguese vitorenses ). The population density in 2010 was 5 people per km². There is a kaolin mine north of the village .

geography

The landscape and biome are predominantly shaped by the Amazon rainforest . The place is on the left side of the Rio Jari. In the south, the municipality is bounded by the beginning of the Amazon delta. The climate is tropical according to the Köppen and Geiger Am / Af climate classification . The average temperature is 27.1 ° C. There is a lot of precipitation and few dry spells.

history

On September 8, 1994, the city was founded as an independent municipality by outsourcing from Laranjal do Jari . Economically, the area is part of the large-scale development and exploitation company known as the Jari Project .

In 2017, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística changed the assignment to geostatistical regions and assigned the municipality to the Região geográfica imediata Laranjal do Jari and the Região geográfica intermediária Macapá .

City administration

Executive: In the local elections in 2016, Raimundo de Alcimar Ney de Souza, called Dielson , became city prefect (mayor) for the term from 2017 to 2020, who had run for the Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT).

Standard of living

The human development index for cities, abbreviated HDI (Portuguese: IDH-M ), was at the very low value of 0.336 in 1991, at the low value of 0.459 in 2000, and at the mean value of 0.619 in 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Amapá: Vitória do Jari> Panorama. Retrieved April 9, 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. a b Dielson. In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed April 9, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. Climate Vitória do Jari: Weather, climate table & climate diagram. In: climate-data.org. de.climate-data.org, accessed on April 9, 2018 .
  5. Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): [ Internet source: archiv-url invalid Divisão Regional do Brasil. ] 2017, archived from the original ; Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  6. ^ Atlas do desenvolvimento humano no Brasil - Vitória do Jari . Retrieved April 9, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).