Santa Fé de Goiás

Santa Fé de Goiás is a municipality in the west-central Brazilian state of Goiás.

Location
Santa Fé is located almost directly west of Brasília and northwest of Goiânia. The nearest town of any size is Jussara, which lies 34 km. to the southeast.
 * Distance to regional center (Goiás Velho): 132 km.
 * Highway connections: GO-060 / Trindade / GO-326 / Anicuns / Sanclerlândia / Novo Brasil / Jussara / BR-070 / Nova Trindade / GO-173.

Neighboring municipalities: Jussara, Britânia, Itapirapuã

Politics

 * Mayor: Ademar Marques de Carvalho (January 2005)
 * City council: 09
 * Eligible voters: 3,885 (December 2007)

In 1957, Santa Fé de Goiás became a district belonging to Goiás. In 1958, it was dismembered to become a district in the municipality of Jussara. In 1988, it got its municipal autonomy.

Demographics

 * Population density: 3.96 inhabitants/km2 (2007)
 * Urban population: 3,514 (2007)
 * Rural population: 1,080 (2007)
 * Population growth: a gain of about 900 people since 1991

Economy
The economy is based on subsistence agriculture, cattle raising, services, public administration, and small transformation industries.
 * Industrial units: 6 (2007)
 * Commercial units: 57 (2007)
 * Meat-packing plant: Frigorífico Arantes Ltda
 * Cattle herd: 135,000 head
 * Main crops: cotton, rice, sugarcane, bananas, sesame seeds, corn, and soybeans.
 * Motor vehicles: 231 automobiles, 34 trucks, and 37 pickup trucks (2007)

Education (2006)

 * Schools: 5
 * Classrooms: 30
 * Teachers: 60
 * Students: 1,314
 * Higher education: none
 * Adult literacy rate: 83.7% (2000) (national average was 86.4%)

Health (2003)

 * Hospitals: 0
 * Hospital beds: 0
 * Ambulatory clinics: 2
 * Doctors, nurses, dentists: 3, 1, 1 (2002)
 * Infant mortality rate: 26.34 (2000) (national average was 33.0)
 * MHDI: 0.713
 * State ranking: 190 (out of 242 municipalities)
 * National ranking: 2,744 (out of 5,507 municipalities)