Dourados

Dourados is a city and municipality, situated in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Southwest of Campo Grande (the state's capital). It has a population of about 264,017 inhabitants, and its economy is based mainly in arable agriculture (particularly Soya, Maize and Sugar Cane) and in cattle ranching. Dourados is also the second most populous and important city of this state.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Dourados
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.official_name: Municipality of Dourados
Settlement.nicknames: Model CityMercosul Portal
Settlement.motto: Terra de Antônio João
Settlement.image_skyline: Dourados - Parque dos Ipês.jpg
Settlement.image_flag: Bandeira de Dourados (MS).svg
Settlement.image_seal: BrasaoDourados.png
Settlement.image_map: MatoGrossodoSul Municip Dourados.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location in Mato Grosso do Sul
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: State
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Alan Guedes
Settlement.leader_party: DEM
Settlement.established_title: Founded

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Commerce and entertainment
Education
Sports
Transportation
Demography
People
Notable people
Sister cities
Climate
References
External links

Its media, commerce, and services more than take care of the thirty cities of Mato Grosso do Sul, including a part of Paraguay. For its size and importance, it is an economic and social capital of a region that possesses approximately a million inhabitants (Vestibule of the Mercosul – the Common Market of the South).

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dourados” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.