Mossâmedes is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in western

Goiás Goiás () is a Brazilian state located in the Center-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso do Sul and Mato Grosso. The state capital is Goi ...

state,

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Location

Mossâmedes is located northwest of the state capital,

Goiânia Goiânia (; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Goiás. With a population of 1,536,097, it is the second-largest city in the Central-West Region and the 10th-largest in the country. Its metropolitan area has a population ...

in the

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. It is connected by paved roads with

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to the north and Anicuns to the south. The distance to the state capital is 142 kilometers. Road connections from Goiânia are made by GO-060 / Trindade / GO-326 / Anicuns / GO-222 / Chopana / GO-326 /

Sanclerlândia Sanclerlândia () is a municipality in western Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 7,641 in 2005 and the total area of the municipality was 496.8 km2. Location Sanclerlândia belongs to the Anicuns Microregion and is northwest of the ...

/ GO-164. Municipal boundaries are with

, Adelândia, Americano do Brasil, Anicuns,

and

Buriti de Goiás Buriti de Goiás is a municipality in eastern Goiás state, Brazil. Location and Communications *Distance to regional center (São Luís de Montes Belos): 58 km. Highway connections are made by state highway BR-069 west from Goiânia, throug ...

The municipality contains the Professor José Ângelo Rizzo Biological Reserve, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1969 and administered by the

Federal University of Goiás The Federal University of Goiás ( pt, Universidade Federal de Goiás, UFG) is a public education, publicly funded university located in the Brazilian state of Goiás, headed in Goiânia and with campuses in the municipalities of Catalão, Goiás, ...

(UFG). It also contains part of the

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, created in 2003.

Demographics

The population has decreased by more than 50% since 1980, when it was 12,208. At that time most of the population was rural and did not transfer to the urban area but to other urban centers in the state. From 1991 to 2000 the geometric population growth rate was -4.83.%. In 2007 3,472 inhabitants lived in the urban area and 1,482 lived in the rural area.

The economy

The main economic activities are cattle and poultry raising, small-scale farming, services, and government employment. In 2007, there were 3 industrial units and 44 retail units. There was one banking institution represented: Banco Itaú S.A. There were 83,400 head of cattle. The main agricultural products in planted area were rice, bananas, sugarcane, manioc, corn, and hearts of palm. None exceeded 1,000 hectares of planted area.

Health and education

In the health sector there was 1 hospital with 20 beds and 4 walk-in health clinics. The infant mortality rate was 20.33 in every 1,000 live births, which was below the national rate of 35.0 in the same year. The school system had 6 schools and 1,170 students. There was 1 middle school and no institutions of higher learning. The adult literacy rate was 84.6%, below the national average of 86.4% in 2000. The ranking on the Municipal

Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, wh ...

was 0.751, which placed Mossâmedes 74 out of 242 municipalities in the state of Goiás and 1,862 out of 5,507 municipalities in the country. For the complete list se
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History

The settlement of Mossâmedes began as a village for the Indian tribes of Naundós, Acroás, and Caiapós in 1755. Its first name was São José de Mossâmedes in honor of the Captain-General Dom José de Almeida Soveral de Carvalho, Governor of the Capitania of Goiás, who was from the village of Mossâmedes in Portugal. From 1770 to 1774 the village went through a complete restructure due to its near disappearance due to the Indians' inability to adapt to life there. Damiana da Cunha, granddaughter of the chief of the Caiapós was instrumental in converting the Indians. In 1780 the village was designated a ''freguesia'' with the name of São José de Mossâmedes. In 1781, due to the continuing evasion of the Indians, another group of 800 Javaés and Carajás was brought from the Ilha do Bananal. In 1845 Mossâmedes became a district, belonging to

. In 1890 it was a district of

, the territorial capital. Finally in 1938 it was raised to municipal status as Mossâmedes. Source
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