Campos Belos is a

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

in northeastern

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state,

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. It is a commercial center for a vast area in the northeast of the state.

Location

Campos Belos is in the extreme northeast of

and borders the state of

Tocantins Tocantins () is one of the 26 states of Brazil. It is the newest state, formed in 1988 and encompassing what had formerly been the northern two-fifths of the state of Goiás. Tocantins covers and had an estimated population of 1,496,880 in 2014 ...

on the north,

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on the east and the municipalities of

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, and São Domingos on the south and southwest. It is 601 km. to the state capital,

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. Highway connections are made by BR-153 /

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/ BR-060 / Planaltina / GO-430 / GO-118 / BR-010 / São João da Aliança /

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. There are connections with

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in the state of

to the north, taking highway BR-242. Campos Belos lies in a region with a mixture of

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vegetation and the semi-arid

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. The town is surrounded by low mountains.

Economy

The main economic activity is cattle raising (55,700 head in 2006), but it was minerals that brought the first settlers to this region. There are deposits of crystal, calciterite, iron, gold, and uranium. In recent years Campos Belos has become a commercial center for a vast area taking in the northeast of

and the southeast of

. The main agricultural products in planted area were rice, sugarcane, and corn. There were three banking institutions represented—BRADESCO S.A., Banco do Brasil S.A., and - Banco Itaú S.A. (2007) Source:

Agricultural data 2006 *Farms: 265 *Total area: 47,987 ha. *Area of permanent crops: 42 ha. *Area of perennial crops: 684 ha. *Area of natural pasture: 19,286 ha. *Area of woodland and forests: 27,417 ha. *Persons dependent on farming: 920 *Number of tractors: 38 *Cattle herd: 55,700 *Main crop: corn with 1,500 ha planted (2006) Source:
IBGE

Health and education

In the health sector there were 02 hospitals with 55 beds (2007). *Municipal

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

: 0.708 *State ranking: 201 (out of 242 municipalities) *National ranking: 2,866 (out of 5,507 municipalities) Source:
Frigoletto
*Literacy rate in 2000: 82.4% *Infant mortality rate in 2000: 26.56 The state university of Goiás (UEG)opened a campus in Campos Belos in 2000, initially to offer a course in Letters. In a short time it tripled the number of students and now has approximately 800. Se

Today the campus offers courses in Letters, Pedagogy, Geography, and Mathematics.

History

Campos Belos began around the small chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Conception in 1881. Lands were donated by local cattle ranchers for the foundation of the new town. In 1889 the settlement was elevated to district, belonging to

, which is now part of the state of

. In 1953 Campos Belos became a city. Development took off with the construction of

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in the 1950s and its inauguration in 1960. By the end of the 1970s the city had its first banking agencies and in the 1980s it was integrated into the national telephone system. A major change occurred in 1988 when the state of Goiás was divided. Campos Belos became an inter-state municipality. Growth was substantial in the decade of the 1990s since the city began to supply the population of the new state of

, which did not have an adequate commercial infrastructure. With the construction of Palmas, the city acquired an alternative route of access to the north of the country.

References

Frigoletto
{{Municipalities of Goiás Municipalities in Goiás

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Economy

Health and education

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