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Planaltina
State	Goiás Goiás Goiás is a state of Brazil, located in the central part of the country. The name Goiás comes from the name of an indigenous community...
Area:	2,539.1 km²
Population:	76,376 (IBGE 2007)
Population density:	30.08 inhab/km² (2007)
Urban / Rural population:	72,193 / 4,183
Elevation:	944 m above sea level
Postcode (CEP):	73750-000
Became a city:	1891
Mayor:	Alexon Luiz Felix Santos
Distance to Goiânia Goiânia -Climate:The city has a tropical wet and dry climate with an average temperature of . There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. Annual rainfall is around 1,520 mm.... :	273 km (170 mi).
IBGE statistical microregion:	012 Entorno de Brasília
Website:	Prefeitura Municipal de Planaltina
Coordinates:	15°29′02"S 47°38′21"W.

Planaltina is a city located in the center of the state of Goiás, Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. Planaltina is often referred to as Planaltina de Goiás, but in official documents it is called Planaltina.

Location and Geography

Planaltina is part of micro-region 12 of the state, the so-called Entorno de Brasília. It borders Água Fria de Goiás

Água Fria de Goiás

Água Fria de Goiás is a small town and municipality in northern Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Água Fria became a city in 1989 when it was dismembered from Planaltina de Goiás in 1989. Água Fria is located in the microregion called Entorno de Brasília, although it is almost 156 kilometers to the...

, Formosa

Formosa, Goiás

Formosa is a city and municipality located in the state of Goiás, Brazil, approximately 80 kilometers east of Brasília. The population was 90,247 in a total area of 5,806.89 km² . Formosa is known for its waterfalls and natural beauty...

, Mimoso de Goiás

Mimoso de Goiás

Mimoso de Goiás is a small town and municipality in northeastern Goiás state, Brazil.Mimoso is located in statistical microregion 012, called Entorno de Brasília. It is almost directly north of Brasília and is on an unpaved highway linking Padre Bernardo to Água Fria de Goiás...

, Padre Bernardo

Padre Bernardo

Padre Bernardo is a small city and municipality north of the Federal District of Brazil in Goiás state, Brazil.-Location:Padre Bernardo is located 42 km. north of the boundary with the Federal District...

and, the Distrito Federal.

It is located on the northeastern boundary of the Federal District north of the satellite city of Planaltina

Planaltina

Planaltina is one of the administrative districts of the Federal District of Brazil, with an area of 1,534 kmª and a population of 147,114 in 2000, of whom 134,663 were classified as urban and 12,451 as rural...

, D.F. It is 273 kilometers from the state capital Goiânia

Goiânia

-Climate:The city has a tropical wet and dry climate with an average temperature of . There's a wet season, from October to April, and a dry one, from May to September. Annual rainfall is around 1,520 mm....

and 55 km (34 mi). from Brasília

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

.

Planaltina is the gateway to an enormous area of ecological preservation, in which can be found the important Chapada dos Veadeiros national park. Nearby is Lagoa Formosa, which, with its 17 square kilometers of surface area, is the largest natural lake in the state of Goiás. Also nearby is the source of the Maranhão River

Maranhão River

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, which flows north into the Tocantins

Tocantins River

The Tocantins is a river in Brazil, the central fluvial artery of the country. In the Tupi language, its name means "toucan's beak" . It runs from south to north for about 2,640 km. It is not really a branch of the Amazon River, although usually so considered, since its waters flow into the...

The population is very poor and there is a serious deficit in infrastructure with no hospitals and poor commercial facilities. Most of the inhabitants work in Brasilia and spend hours on buses to get to their work. According to studies, at least one member of each family works in Brasília. The per capita income is from one to two minimum salaries.

Economy

The economy is based on agriculture (soybeans (9,000 hectares in 2006), corn, manioc and citrus fruits), cattle raising (62,000 head in 2006), services, public administration (1,328 workers in 2003), and small transformation industries. In 2007 there were 02 financial institutions.

Agricultural data 2006

Farms: 959
Total area: 134,617 ha.
Area of permanent crops: 2,114 ha.
Area of perennial crops: 25,659 ha.
Area of natural pasture: 66,928 ha.
Area of woodland and forests: 27,905 ha.
Persons dependent on farming: 1,350
Number of tractors: 205 IBGE

History

Planaltina had already become a municipality in 1981, but with the installation of the Federal District in 1960 it lost part of its territory, including the municipal seat. As a consequence a new city had to be built, which for some time was called Brasilinha. The traditional Planaltina became a satellite city of Brasília

Brasília

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The site chosen for the new Planaltina was the Fazenda Brasília belonging to Joaquim Gonçalves, known as Joaquim Mineiro. In 1967 the city hall was built and it was given the name Planaltina after a plebiscite carried out in the same year.

The early years were similar to those of the development of Brasília

Brasília

, with the cerrado

Cerrado

The Cerrado, is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil, particularly in the states of Gioas and Minas Gerais...

being cleaned and wooden shacks being put up. The similarity with Brasília was such that people would say "they are building a little Brasília, a Brasilinha, thus baptizing the new city.

The first plan envisioned 22 thousand lots that would each house 5 persons. In fewer than 30 years the population had reached 80 thousand inhabitants. Much of the population explosion came about because of the construction of Brasília. A massive migratory wave came to the federal capital and there was no space in the original plan. The military government at the time would not allow these families to squat on federal lands and sent the excess population to Planaltina.

Planaltina gave up most of its territory including its municipal seat to form the new Federal District, but never received any indemnification for this loss. See History of Planaltina

Planaltina or Planaltina de Goiás?

There is a certain amount of confusion about what the name of the city is. In the IBGE/Seplan statistics it is listed as Planaltina. In Telelistas it is called Planaltina de Goiás but has Planaltina as the name in the webpage. See Telelistas-Planaltina. On the Portuguese version on Wikipedia the article is titled "Planaltina" but the table refers to "Planaltina de Goiás". Just to confuse matters more the Prefeitura calls itself "Planaltina". See Planaltina.go.

Health and education

Schools: 58 with 26,000 students (2006)
Higher education: campus of the UEG

Municipal Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...

: 0.723 (medium classification)

State ranking: 167 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking: 2,577 (out of 5,507 municipalities)
Literacy rate (2000): 85.6%
Infant mortality rate (2000): 24.5

Sources of data

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