Mambaí | |
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Municipality | |
The Municipality of Mambaí | |
Coordinates: 14°29′46″S46°06′22″W / 14.49611°S 46.10611°W Coordinates: 14°29′46″S46°06′22″W / 14.49611°S 46.10611°W | |
Country | Brazil |
Region | Central-West |
State | Goiás |
Founded | November 14, 1958 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Glenice Alves Teixeira (PL) |
Area | |
• Total | 859.555 km2 (331.876 sq mi) |
Population (2020 [1] ) | |
• Total | 9,081 |
• Density | 6.4/km2 (17/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
HDI (2000) | 0.647 – medium [2] |
Mambaí is a city in eastern Goiás state, Brazil. It is the easternmost city in that state.
Mambaí is one of the most isolated cities in the state of Goiás.[ citation needed ] It lies in the Vão do Paranã statistical micro-region less than 20 kilometers from the border with the state of Bahia. It is 61 kilometers to the main interstate highway, the BR-020, which links Brasília to Salvador. It is 250 kilometers to Brasília. The distance to the state capital of Goiânia is 512 kilometers. Municipal boundaries are with Posse, Buritinópolis, Damianópolis, and the state of Bahia. Highway connections from Goiânia are made by taking BR-153 / Anápolis / Alexânia / BR-060 / Planaltina / Formosa / BR-020 / Simolândia / GO-236. [3]
The population decreased 8.37.% from 1991 to 1996 and continued the decline from 1996 to 2000 with -4.02.%. In 1980 the population was 5,125 so in twenty-five years the increase has been negligible.
The economy was mainly based on agriculture, with extensive cattle raising occupying most of the territory. Most inhabitants were employed in small retail units, government jobs, and modest industrial transformation units. There were no banking institutions reporting in August 2007.
The cattle herd was small compared to other municipalities in the state. In 2006 there were 7,900 head. The number of milk cows—480—was one of the smallest in the state. The main agricultural products in planted area were corn, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and rice. [4]
In 2006 there were 6 schools and 01 hospital with 18 beds.
In 2000 Mambaí was ranked 234 out of 242 municipalities in the state of Goiás on the United Nations Human Development Index with a score of 0.647. Nationally it was ranked 3,816 out of 5,507 municipalities. [5]
There is a small gypsy community living in the area, which was the study of a linguist, Fábio José Dantas Melo, from the University of Brasília. Professor Melo carried out a study on the dialect spoken by these Gypsies. [6]
The settlement began in the 19th century when settlers from the state of Bahia came looking for rubber produced by the mangabeira tree. The village that appeared took the name Riachão. After the building of a chapel and the passing of muleteers heading to Bahia the settlement began to grow. Soon the name was changed to Mambaí and it became a district of the municipality of Posse. The origin of the name is unknown. In 1958 it was dismembered from Posse and became an autonomous municipality.
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