Goiânia

Goiânia on a map of Goiás

Goiânia ( [ gu'ɐni. Ɐ ] ) is the capital of the Brazilian state of Goiás. It is located in central Brazil on a plateau about 750 meters above sea level. It has about 1.3 million inhabitants, the municipal area covers about 750 square kilometers. The distance to the capital Brasília is about 200 kilometers to the commercial center of São Paulo there are 950 km.

Goiânia is one of the planned cities in Brazil. Your foundation stone was laid on 24 October 1933 already with the suggestion to make her the later capital of the state of Goiás. Until then, the baroque town of Goiás Velho was the capital of the state. The Pedro Ludovico planned and realized by Atílio Correia Lima city is one of the Brazilian cities with the best quality of life. Of the 1100 acres of built-up area 375 hectares are planted.

The airport of Goiânia called Santa Genoveva; in addition, the city has a huge bus terminal, which is one of the most important hubs for buses in Brazil. Goiânia is currently reigns (2009-2012) of mayor Paulo Garcia. The municipal administrative center (Centro Administrativo Municipal) located in the Av. do Cerrado, n º 999, Parque Lozandes, CEP: 74884-092.

In Goiânia, there was in 1987 a fatal accident involving radioactive material, the Goiânia accident.

Geography

Goiânia is bordered to the north by the municipalities Goianira, Nerópolis and Goianápolis, Aparecida de Goiânia to the south, to the east by Bela Vista de Goiás and to the west by Goianira and Trindade. Is Bathed Goiânia from the river Rio Meia Ponte and its tributaries, including the Ribeirão João Leite.

Education

Among the universities in Goiânia include the Universidade Federal de Goiás ( UFG ), the Pontifical Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC -GO ); Universidade Estadual de Goiás the (LEL ), the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Goiás (IFG ), the Centro Universitario de Goiás (Uni- Anhanguera ) and the Universidade Paulista ( UNIP ).

Tourism

In Goiânia is since 2006 an annual Oktoberfest beer festival ( Oktoberfest also do cerrado called ). 2007 took it from 4th place to 7th October. There were 88,000 visitors this year there. The Santa Genoveva Airport ( IATA code: GYN) is currently conceived with a passenger volume of more than 1.5 million passengers in 2007, in the expansion. A new start and runway and a new terminal to Santa Genoveva Airport in response to rising traffic. Direct flights connect Goiânia with the main Brazilian airports in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia.

Attractions

  • Palacio das Esmeraldas
  • Torre do Relógio
  • Teatro de Goiânia
  • Zoo
  • Bosque dos Buritis
  • Parque Vaca Brava
  • Museu Estadual Professor Zoroastro Artiaga
  • Museu da Universidade Federal de Goiás Antropológico
  • Museu Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
  • Museu de Arte Contemporânea
  • Monumento às Três Racas
  • Monumento ao Bandeirante
  • Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer

Climate

The average annual temperature is 21.9 ° C. the amount due The coldest is 18.8 ° C to 21.2 ° C between May and August. The lowest temperature ever recorded was 1.2 ° C in July. The spring is the hottest season with averages of 29-32 ° C. The annual rainfall is 1487 mm.

Twinning

Since 2004, Goiânia leads a partnership with the German town of Idar -Oberstein. From this twinning a higher education cooperation was between the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld the University of Trier and the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Goiás - IFG ( Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, abbreviated Instituto Federal de Goiás or IFG) in the field of sustainable technologies show, which was sponsored by the German Academic exchange Service for the period 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2009.

Literature on Goiânia

  • Tarcísio Boltelho Rodrigues Botelho ( Eds.) Goiânia. Cidade Pensada. Univ. Federal de Goiás, Goiânia 2002, ISBN 85-7274-177-1.
  • Nasr N. Fayad Chaul: A Construção de Goiânia ea TRANSFERENCIA as Capital. CEGRAF Goiânia, 1989, ISBN 85-85003-60- X.
  • Luís Palacín: Fundação de Goiânia e Desenvolvimento de Goiás. Goiânia 1976.
  • Wolney Unes: Identidade art déco de Goiânia. São Paulo: Ateliê, 2001.

Personalities

  • Baltazar Maria de Morais Junior ( born 1959 ), football player
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