Nazário 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 eastern

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state,

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Location

Nazário is located 74 km. west of 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 ...

a few kilometers west of the Rio dos Bois, a major tributary of the

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. The regional center,

Anicuns Anicuns is a city and municipality in central Goiás state, Brazil. Geographys Anicuns is located in the Anicuns Microregion, which includes 13 cities with a population of 103276 inhabitants in a total area of 5483.10 km2. It forms boundarie ...

, is 21 km to the northwest. Highway connections from

are made by state highway BR-069 west from

, through Trindade, Santa Bárbara de Goiás, and then 12 kilometers west to Nazário. Neighboring municipalities are Turvânia,

, Avelinópolis, and Santa Bárbara de Goiás

Demographics

In 2007 there were 6,702 people living in the urban area and 521 living in the rural area. The population has increased by about 1,000 people since 1980. Between 2000 and 2007 the geometric population growth rate was 1.23.%.

The economy

The economy was based on agriculture, cattle raising, services, and a small number of modest transformation industries. There was 1 meat-packing plant—Gelnex Indústria e Comércio Ltda—and 1 banking institution—Banco Itaú S.A. In 2007 there were 39,600 head of cattle. The main agricultural products were rice, bananas, coffee, sugarcane, beans, oranges, manioc, and corn. Corn was the only crop with more than 1,000 planted hectares.

Health and education

The health sector was modest with 1 hospital (18 beds). The infant mortality rate was 16.30, well below the national rate of 35.0 in 2000. the educational sector was composed of The school system had 6 schools and 2,236 students (2006). There were no institutions of higher learning. The adult literacy rate was 87.0%, higher than the national average of 86.4% in 2000.

History

The name of the town comes from the first name of its founder, Nazário de Pereira Oliveira, who first settled in the region in the nineteenth century. He built the first house at the meeting of the waterways Córrego dos Buriti and Rio dos Bois. Later a chapel was erected in honor of Our Lady of the Conception. Moved by religious faith several families arrived and by 1930 the settlement took on the name of Nazário. At first it was a district of the now extinct municipality of Novo Horizonte, which later, in 1938 became

. In 1948 Nazário got its emancipation and became an independent municipality. Source:
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Ranking on the Municipal

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*MHDI: 0.765 *State ranking: 47 (out of 242 municipalities) *National ranking: 1,459 (out of 5,507 municipalities) For the complete list se
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