Vilhena

Vilhena () is the easternmost municipality in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. Its population was 102,211 (IBGE-2020) and its area is 11,519 km2. It is the fifth-largest city in Rondônia and has the best HDI in the state (0.771 – UNDP/2000). According to IBGE-2015, Vilhena also had a GDP of R$1.824.367,69 (approximately US$460 million), which represented a GDP per capita of R$23.055,20 (around US$6.000,00).

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Settlement.name: Vilhena
Settlement.settlement_type: Municipality
Settlement.official_name: The Municipality of Vilhena
Settlement.image_skyline: Vilhena_RO.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 250px
Settlement.image_caption: Aerial view of Vilhena
Settlement.image_flag: Flag_rondonia_vilhena.svg
Settlement.image_seal: Brasao-vilhena-ro.png
Settlement.image_map: Rondonia vilhena.svg
Settlement.mapsize: 250px
Settlement.map_caption: Location of Vilhena in the State of Rondônia
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: North
Settlement.subdivision_name2: border|22px Rondônia
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor
Settlement.leader_name: Flori Cordeiro (PODE)

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Wikidata facts

Demonym: vilhenense
Population: 39263
Area: 11518.913
Elevation: 373
Official website: pmvilhena.com.br:80
Image: Vilhena RO.jpg
Dialing code: 69

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Commons category: Vilhena
inception: 1977-00-00
postal code: 76980-000
Human Development Index: 0.731
electorate: 63105

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History
Population growth
Emancipation
Climate
Transportation
Economy
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==History== In common with many other municipalities of Rondônia, Vilhena was started in the early twentieth century, around 1910, when Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon built telegraph posts in the fields of the Plateau Parecis, linking several cities between Cuiabá and Porto Velho. Towns often would rise around these posts, Vilhena included.