Edéia

Edéia
State Goiás
Area: 1,466.3 km²
Population: 10,251 (IBGE 2007)
Elevation: 601m above sea level
Postcode (CEP): 75940-000
IBGE statistical microregion: Vale do Rio dos Bois
Became a city: 1948
Distance to Goiânia: 125 km.
Website: Câmara Municipal de Edéia
Coordinates: 17°20′15″S 49°55′43″W / 17.33750°S 49.92861°W / -17.33750; -49.92861

Edéia is a municipality in south-central Goiás state, Brazil.

Municipal Boundaries

Edéia is in the Vale do Rio dos Boisstatistical micro-region and has municipal boundaries with:

Highway connections with the state capital, Goiânia, are made by BR-060 / Guapó / Cezarina / Indiara / GO-320.

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Education and health

History

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. Later the name was changed to Alegrete and later in 1938 to Edéia, of unknown origin. 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

For a complete list see Frigoletto

See also

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