Campos Verdes 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 north

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state,

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. Campos Verdes was known as the emerald capital of

but is fast losing population as the emeralds have run out.

Location

It is located 321 kilometers from the state capital,

Goiânia Goiânia ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian federative units of Brazil, state of Goiás. With a population of 1,536,097, it is the second-largest city in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West Region and the 10th-larges ...

in the

Porangatu Microregion The Porangatu Microregion is a statistical region created by IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Economia) in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. The most important city is Porangatu. Municipalities The microregion consists of the foll ...

. Access from

is made by GO-080 /

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/ BR-153 / Jaraguá /

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/ GO-336 /

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/ GO-154 /

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. Municipal boundaries are with: *North:

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*South:

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*East:

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*West: Uirapuru

Economy

Mining

With the discovery of emeralds in the region the population reached almost 50 thousand in the 1990s, but has now dropped to fewer than 7 thousand. It is the typical example of the mining town that grew overnight, with almost no infrastructure, and soon lost its population due to the disappearance of the mineral that had created its wealth. Today Campos Verdes is known by many as a ghost town. Campos Verdes began when minerals were discovered in 1981. Attracted by the mines, the first settlers began to arrive, forming a settlement called Garimpo, which at the time was a district of

. In 1987 it was raised to the status of municipality.

Agriculture

Despite the drop in mineral activity there is still agricultural production based on cattle raising (34,500 head in 2006) and plantations with modest production of pineapple, rice, sugarcane, manioc, and corn. In 2006 there were 224 agricultural units with 1,157 hectares under cultivation. There were 25,476 hectares of pasture. Approximately 600 persons were involved in agriculture. There was one bank.

Health and education

The town had one hospital with 56 beds (2007). The infant mortality rate in 2000 was 41.40. There were 09 schools with 2,704 students. The number of schools and students has dropped dramatically since 2000 when there were 17 schools with 5,358 students. The literacy rate in 2000 was 81.
Seplan
The score on the 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 ...

was 0.694. *State ranking: 215 (out of 242 municipalities) *National ranking: 3,098 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

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