Porangatu

Porangatu is a town in Goiás state, Brazil.

Key facts

Settlement.official_name: Porangatu
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.image_shield: Brasão Municipal de Porangatu.png
Settlement.image_flag: Bandeira de Porangatu.jpg
Settlement.image_map: Goias Municip Porangatu.svg
Settlement.map_caption: Location in Goiás state
Settlement.pushpin_map: Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Central-West

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Geography
History
Political information
Demographic information
Economic information
Agricultural Data (2006)
Education (2006)
Health (2007)
Municipal Human Development Index 2000
Seplan Economic Development Index
Seplan Social Development Index
See also
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Porangatu is a town in Goiás state, Brazil.

==Geography== Parangatu is in its own microregion, Porangatu Microregion, of 226,766 inhabitants in an area of 35.287 km2; 426 km from the state capital, Goiânia. This microregion serves as a nucleus for eighteen municipalities in the north of Goiás state. The municipal seat is just west of the important interstate highway BR-153, which connects Belém with Brasília and just south of the state line with the state of Tocantins.