title: Aporé
text: Aporé is a municipality in southwest Goiás state, Brazil.  The municipality is a large producer of cattle.  Aporé belongs to the Southwest Goiás Microregion.
  
  Geography
  Aporé is 445 quilômetros from the state capital, Goiânia, near the boundary with the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.  It is linked by highways BR-060 / Guapó / Indiara / Rio Verde / GO-174 / GO-422 / GO-206 / Caçu / GO-178 / Itajá / GO-302. (Source: Sepin) It is part of the Sudoeste de Goiás Microregion.  Municipal boundaries are with Serranópolis, State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Itajá, and Chapadão do Céu.
  
  The climate is tropical humid, with average temperatures between 20 °C and 30 °C.  The average elevation is 500 meters above sea level.  Important rivers are the Aporé, which forms the boundary between the states of Goiás and Mato Grosso do Sul, the Corrente, the Peixe and the Prata.
  
  Districts, Villages, and Hamlets
  Villages:  Itumirim
  
  Demographics
  Population density in 2007: 1.23 inhabitants/km2
  Population growth rate 1996/2007: 0.41.%
  Total population in 2007: 3,554
  Total population in 1980: 2,764
  Urban population in 2007: 2,291
  Rural population in 2007: 1,263
  
  The economy
  The main economic activity is cattle raising (210,000 head) and agriculture.  The main crops in 2006 were corn and soybeans.
  Industrial units: 5
  Retail units: 43
  Financial institutions: Banco do Brasil S.A. (August/2007)
  Dairies: Laticínios Aporé Indústria e Comércio Ltda. (22/05/2006)
  GDP in 2005 (R$1,000.00):  43,314
  GDP per capita in 2005 (R$1.00):  12,376
  
  Motor vehicles
  Automobiles: 281
  Pickup trucks: 77
  Number of inhabitants per motor vehicle: 10
  
  Main agricultural products in ha.(2006)
  corn:      400
  soybeans: 2,000
  
  Farm Data (2006)in ha.
  Number of farms:                311
  Total area:                  322,905
  Area of permanent crops:        322
  Area of perennial crops:     17,835
  Area of natural pasture:     214,147
  Persons dependent on farming: 713
  
  Health and education
  The infant mortality rate was (for every 1,000 born alive): 2000—23.82
  (IBGE 2002) while the literacy rate was 2000—85.4%
  (IBGE 2002)
  In 2006 there were 4 schools with 949 students.  There was 1 hospital with 23 beds.
  
  The Municipal Human Development Index was 0.752, ranking Aporé 72 out of 242 municipalities in the state and 1,827 out of 5,507 municipalities in the country.
  
  History
  The history of Aporé begins in the twentieth century near a site where a village, Arraial do Corrente, already existed.  With the decadence of this settlement rancher João Nunes founded a settlement nearby on the banks of the Aporé River.  Lands were donated to erect a chapel to the Divino Espírito Santo and a bridge was built over the river, allowing communications with Mato Grosso.  In 1938 the first houses appeared and the village was named Aporé after the river, a name which means "river of fish".  In 1958 Aporé became a municipality.
  
  See also
  List of municipalities in Goiás
  Microregions of Goiás
  
  References
  
   Frigoletto
  
  Municipalities in Goiás