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  • Population: (2000): 27,677

  • Area: 1,281.6 km&2

  • Population density: 21.60 inhab/km&2

  • Elevation: 651 meters

  • Became a municipality: 1953

  • Distance to Goiânia : 171 km.

  • Microregion: Ceres Microregion

  • Main highways of access: G0-070 to Itaberaí and state highway GO-156 north through Heitoraí . See Seplan


Because of its fertile soil and geo-economic location, Itapuranga is considered the capital of the Vale do São Patrício.
Municipal boundaries are with: Carmo Do Rio Verde , Faina , Goiás , Guarita , Heitoraí , Morro Agudo De Goiás , Uruana and São Patrício .

There are two well defined seasons, a rainy season from October to April, and a dry season, from May to September. The average annual minimum temperature is 11 °C, the maximum, 38 °C, and the average, 25 °C.

The vegetation is quite diversified: small clumps of forest, bushes, and grasses. The types of vegetation cover are: Cerrado 8.2%, fields 4.4%, forest 3.0%. The cultivated area is 8.7% and the pasture land is 74.8%.

The economy is based on dairy farming and the plantation of maracujá, or passion fruit, which occupies an area of 12 km&2.

Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index
  • Life expectancy: 67.9

  • Adult literacy rate: 0.808

  • School attendance rate: 0.829

  • MHDI: 0.735

  • State ranking: 128 (out of 242 municipalities)

  • National ranking: 2,312 (out of 5,507 municipalities)


''Data are from 2000''

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