Várzea Grande is a town and municipality in the state of Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso

Mato Grosso is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest in area, located in the western part of the country.Neighboring states are Rondônia, Amazonas, Pará, Tocantins, Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul. It also borders Bolivia to the southwest...

 in the Central-West Region of 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...

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History

The "City of the Great Lowlands" arose from a donation of land grants given to the Guana Indians, considered civilized by the Portuguese and known for their skills as boatmen and fishermen, in 1832 by the imperial government. The city, whose name roughly translates into English as "Great Lowlands of the Guana", was a mandatory stop along the way for the herds of cattle that came from Upper Rio Rosario (now Rosario West ) that were en route to Cuiabá.

However, according to traditional history, its foundation is closely linked to the military camp built during the war with Paraguay , supposedly near the current center of town - Camp Couto Magalhães . However, this military camp, which gave support to the state capital during the war, which was established May 15th of 1867 , by general, lawyer, and diamond mining town founder, José Vieira Couto de Magalhães , was located on the left shore of the Cuiabá River, or on the other side of the river from the city of Cuiabá, near the mouth of the Rio Coxipó, the northern capital.

Geography

Grande floodplain bordering the municipalities of Cuiabá, Santo Antônio de Leverger , Our Lady of Deliverance , Acorizal and Raft . The territory was part of the city of Cuiabá, before being dismembered. Between the two cities is only the Cuiabá River as the boundary. The savanna dominates the region with the densest forest on riversides and wetlands are already seeing a trend of transition to the Pantanal . Varzea Grande is located more than 180m sea level, this causes the city to be more higher than the Equals.

Economy

Grande floodplain is predominantly commercial and industrial, and subsistence agriculture. Through tax incentives and land grants, industries settled in the region, constituting, together with the capital, the main industrial center of the state. Varzea Grande was named in 2010 to industrial and commercial city in the state of Mato Grosso surpassing even the famous Rondonopolis and ranking 26th place in question their nation Terminal Integration André Maggi moves more than 60 000 people per dia.Previsto For 2012 the launch of the first Shopping Center in Lowland Great Guano Shopping Center located near the Marechal Rondon International Airport , which should make the city's economy grow and move further trade city, and located in the Shopping Formula Avenue FEB.

Climate

Lowland Grande and Cuiabá has the climate trocal hot and humid, the temperature range varies from 17 º C to 32 º C.O winter, in recent times has been very strict temperature lowered to 10 ° C in July with windchill 4.9 ° C because atypical for residents who are accustomed to high temperatures, but it is very dry this time of year in Mato Grosso, there are many fires that are harmful to health and this causes the relative humidity drops to 13%. The summer is very hot with temperatures ranging from 23 C to 38 ° C or even the absolute 40 C, is also the season that more rains with changes from one moment to another, and this causes the temperature to drop a little, on a rainy day the temperature is no more 22 ° C. Large Lowland and Cuiabá have hot nights with temperatures that can reach 32 º C absolute, all-night temperature drops to around 24 º C.

Demographics

According to data from demographic census carried out by IBGE in 2010 , the population of Greater Lowland is concentrated almost entirely in the urban area. Nothing more than 248,829 people - 98.46% of the total population - live in urban areas, with only 3880 inhabitants (1.54%) in rural areas. [6]

Most of the population of 252,709 inhabitants are women, 127,351 are women (50.39%) against 125,358 men (49.61%). [6]

As its population recorded in 2000 was 215,298 inhabitants, Greater Lowland grew 17.37% in ten years - or 1.73% per year - with an absolute growth of 37,411 people in that period.

Transportation

Public transportation is done by buses, collective taxis and motorcycle taxi, integrated with Cuiabá.

According to the Traffic Department of the MT , the fleet of Cuiabá and Várzea Grande consists of a total of 292,219 vehicles (215,174 and 77,045 respectively), while 152,366 are cars (117,310 and 35,056 respectively) are 77,024 motorcycles / scooters (51,699 and 25,325 respectively ) (RENAEST est. 2008).

Marechal Rondon International Airport

Marechal Rondon International Airport

Marechal Rondon International Airport is the airport serving Cuiabá, Brazil, located in the adjoining municipality of Várzea Grande. It is named after Marshall Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon , a Brazilian explorer.It is operated by Infraero....

, which also serves Cuiabá

Cuiabá

Under the Koppen climate classification, Cuiaba features a tropical wet and dry climate. Cuiabá is famous for its searing heat, although temperatures in winter can arrive sporadically at 10 degrees, indeed atypical, caused by cold fronts coming from the south, and that may only last one or two...

is located at Várzea Grande.