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Edéia

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Edéia is a small city and municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 11,392 in 2000 and the area of the municipality was 1,466.3 km². The elevation of the municipal seat is 601. Edéia became a city in 1948.

Edéia is in the Rio dos Bois Microregion and has municipal boundaries with:

The distance to Goiânia is 125 kilometers and highway connections are made by BR-060 / Guapó / Cezarina / Indiara / GO-320.

Edéia began around 1915, in the settlement called Povoado de Santo Antônio do Alegrete, near the Turvo and Bois rivers, where a chapel to Saint Anthony was erected. The first commercial house appeared in 1913 and the settlement got its municipal emancipation in 1948. Electricity arrived only in 1966.

Ranking on the Municipal Human Development Index

  • Life expectancy: 69.47
  • Adult literacy rate: 0.850
  • School attendance rate: 0.790
  • MHDI: 0.759
  • State ranking: 58 (out of 242 municipalities)
  • National ranking: 1,624 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

Data are from 2000

For a complete list see [1]

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