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Jataí
State	Goiás
Area:	7,174.2 km²
Population:	83,479 ''(IBGE 2005)''
Elevation:	708 m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	75800-000
Became a city:	1882
Distance to Goiânia:	182 km.
IBGE statistical microregion:	013 Southwest Goiás Microregion
Website:	Prefeitura de Jataí

'Jataí' is a municipality in southern Goiás state, Brazil. Its population was reckoned at 83,479 (2005 estimate) in a total area of 7,174.2 km². (10/10/2002) Jataí is a major producer of agricultural products, including soybeans, rice, and corn. It has the largest herd of cattle in the state and is a large producer of poultry and swine.

★ State ranking in area: 6th in the state in 2002

Contents

Location

Climate

Hydrography

Political data

Demographic data

Economy

Economic data

Animal raising

Agricultural data (2005)

Gross Domestic Product-GDP

Infrastructure

Education (2005)

Health (2003)

Permanent households and income

External links

Sources of data

See also

Location

It is located in the southwest part of the state at the confluence of the São Pedro and Claro rivers. The state capital of Goiânia is 316 km. away. Highway connections are made by BR-060 / Abadia de Goiás / Guapó / Indiara / Acreúna / Santo Antônio da Barra / Rio Verde. [1]
Geographical limits: Caiapônia, Mineiros, Itarumã, Aparecida do Rio Doce, Caçu, Cachoeira Alta, Rio Verde, Mineiros and Serranópolis.
Jataí is part of the Southwest Goiás Microregion, which has a population of 330,490 inhabitants in 18 cities and a total area of 56,293.30 km².

Climate

Climate: Tropical mesothermic, with two seasons well defined by the seasonal regime of rain.
Period of rain: October to April.
Period of drought: May to September.
Temperature: average minimum and maximum in June (coldest month) is: 11°C - 27°C. In September (hottest month): 18°C - 35°C. Temperatures always reach as high as 38°C and as low as 4°C during the year. A surprising 0°C was recorded on July 18th, 2000.
Precipitation: great pluviometrical volume of approximately 1,800mm, but badly distributed throughout the year.

Hydrography

The municipality is located in the Serra do Caiapó, which divides the basins of the Araguaia and the Parnaíba rivers. Its hydrographic network belongs to the basin of the Paraná, being composed of tributaries on the right bank of the Parnaíba.
Rivers: Claro, São Pedro, Doce, Ariranha e Paraíso.
The water is supplied by the Claro river and distributed to the population after treatment.

Political data

★ Mayor: Fernando Henrique Per

★ Vice-mayor: Adilson Carvalho de Morais

★ Number of councilmembers: 10

★ Total number of eligible voters: 53,990 (06/09/2004)

Demographic data

★ Population density: 11.07 inhab/km² (2003)

★ Population in 1980: 53,394 (42,840 urban and 10,554 rural)

★ Population in 1991: 65,957 (55,593 urban and 10,364 rural)

★ Population in 2003: 79,398 (73,202 urban and 6,196 rural) (1)

★ Population in 2005: 83,479 (1)
(1)Estimated by logistic method

★ Population growth rate 1991/1996: 0.96.%

★ Population growth rate 1991/2000: 1.51.%

★ Population growth rate 1996/2000: 2.19.%

Economy

Jataí has a number of small-sized commercial establishments and service-providing enterprises. Its economy is mostly based on agriculture (soy, rice, corn, beans, and bananas), cattle, pig, and chicken raising, althought commerce and transformation industries --especially the clothing industry-- play an important role, they are highly dependent on the town's agrobusiness.

Economic data

★ Number of Industrial Establishments: 138 (10/06/2005)

★ Industrial District: Distrito Agroindustrial - DAIJA (Sept/2004)

★ Distilleries: (June/2005)

★ Meat-packing Plants/Egg collection: Gale Agroindustrial S/A (07/06/2005)

★ Dairies: - Laticínios Dallas Ind. e Com. Ltda.; - Agromilk Indústria e Comércio de Laticínios Ltda.; - Dairy Partners Americas Manufacturing Brasil (07/06/2005)

★ Banking Establishments: - -Banco ABN AMRO Real S.A. -Banco do Brasil S.A.(2) - BRADESCO S.A (2) - CEF - Banco Itaú S.A.(2) - HSBC Bank Brasil S.A –Banco Múltiplo

★ Number of Retail Commercial Establishments: 905 (April/2005)

★ Motor vehicles: 11,088 automobiles, 1,450 trucks, 1,629 pickup trucks, and 5,490 motorcycles. (2004)

Animal raising

(2004)

★ Poultry: (head) 2,487,745

★ Cattle (head) 352,400

★ Milk production (1,000 liters) 58.780

★ Egg production: (12,000 eggs) 308

★ Swine: (head) 30,000

★ Milk cows (head): 42,300

Agricultural data (2005)

★ Beans: 10 km² / 1,500 tons

★ Cotton: 19.2 km² / 6,300 tons

★ Corn: 899.78 km² / 346,000 tons

★ Rice: 84.4 km² / 6,100 tons

★ Soybeans: 2,370.19 km² / 597,000 tons

★ Sorghum: 250 km² / 51,000 tons

★ Sunflowers: 13 km² / 2,000 tons

★ Wheat: 2 km² / 250 tons

Gross Domestic Product-GDP

★ GDP: (R$ 1,000.00) 1.012.901 (2003)

★ GDP: per capita (R$ 1.00) 12,570 (2003)

★ GDP by sectors in 2002 (R$ 1,000.00): 302.837 (Agriculture), 222.074 (Industry), 260.104 (Services)

★ Ranking of GDP in state (2002): 7

Infrastructure

There are three institutes of higher education, including a campus of the Federal University of Goiás. This campus features 9 courses distributed in three academic units: the Center of Human Sciences, Letters, and Exact Sciences, the Center of Physical Education and the Center of Agricultural and Biological Sciences.
In the health sector there are four hospitals, 11 clinics, and one maternity.
In communications there are 5 radio stations and two local television stations. In addition there are 2 newspapers.

Education (2005)

★ Schools in activity: 64

★ Classrooms: 562

★ Teachers: 1,198

★ Total Students: 23,831

★ Students in pre-school education: 2,267

★ Students in Primary Level: 14,462

★ Students in Secondary Level: 3,840

★ Students in Special Education: 167

★ Students in Adult Education: 2,208

★ Students in Professional Education: 362

★ Students in Nursery School: 525

★ Higher education: - Centro de Ensino Superior de Jataí-CESUT - Campus Universitário da UFG - Pólo Universitário da UEG - Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Jataí – CEFET-GO

★ Literacy Rate: 89.8%

Health (2003)

★ Hospitals: 4

★ Beds: 250

★ Walk-in health clinics: 27

★ Doctors: 166 (2002)

★ Nurses: 22

★ Dentists: 27

★ Infant mortality rate: 17.77 (in 1,000 live births)

Permanent households and income

(2000)

★ Total: 21,395

★ Earning up to 1 minimum salary: 4,704

★ More than 1 to 2: 5,415

★ More than 2 to 3: 2,841

★ More than 3 to 5: 2,902

★ More than 5 to 10: 2,289

★ More than 10 to 15: 667

★ More than 15 to 20: 445

★ More than 20 to 30: 198

★ More than 30: 457

★ No income: 1,477
==The Human Development Index==

★ Life expectancy: 71.5

★ Adult literacy rate: 0.887

★ School attendance rate: 0.848

★ MHDI: 0.793

★ State ranking: 15 (out of 242 municipalities)

★ National ranking: 740 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
''Data are from 2000''
For the complete list see [2]

External links

★ Prefeitura de Jataí

★ Jataí Campus of Universidade Federal de Goiás

★ Photos of Jataí

Sources of data

★ Diario da Manhã

★ IBGE

★ Seplan

★ Frigoletto

★ City Brazil

★ Sepin

See also

List of municipalities in Goiás