Piracanjuba
Sign in to savePiracanjuba () is a municipality in southeastern Goiás state, Brazil. It is a big producer of orchids, milk products, and soybeans. Piracanjuba is also the name of a fish (Brycon orbignyanus) common to the waters of the Plata River basin.
Key facts
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- Piracanjuba
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- Municipality
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- Location in Goiás state
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- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
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- Brazil
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- Region
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- Central-West
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- State
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- Goiás
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- Mesoregion
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- Microregion
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- Meia Ponte Microregion
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- Metrop. region
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- piracanjubense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Goiás
- Population
- 25273
- Area
- 2405.114
- Elevation
- 786
- Shares border with
- Bela Vista de Goiás
- Image
- Matriz de Piracanjuba - panoramio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 64
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- Commons category
- Piracanjuba
- electorate
- 18610
- Human Development Index
- 0.755
- postal code
- 75640-000
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Location
- History
- Origin of the name
- Political Information
- Demographic Information
- Economic Information
- Education (2006)
- Health (2007)
- Tourism
- Media
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- References
Piracanjuba () is a municipality in southeastern Goiás state, Brazil. It is a big producer of orchids, milk products, and soybeans. Piracanjuba is also the name of a fish (Brycon orbignyanus) common to the waters of the Plata River basin.
==Location== Piracanjuba is located southeast of Goiânia. It is in the valley of the Piracanjuba River, which flows to south to join the Paranaíba. The important BR-153 highway lies 23 km. to the west.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piracanjuba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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