Luziânia

About Luziânia

Luziânia is a municipality in the state of Goiás, Brazil. This city is a producer of agricultural products, including soybeans and beans.

Luziânia is located 68km south of Brasília and is part of the area, called Entorno do Distrito Federal.

Although the city has existed as a settlement since colonial days, its rapid growth occurred in the eighties and nineties with the population explosion of the federal capital and the need for less expensive living areas outside the planned city.

The municipality is limited in the north by Valparaíso de Goiás and Novo Gama; in the south by Orizona and Ipameri; in the west by Santo Antônio do Descoberto, Alexânia, and Silvânia; and in the east by Cristalina.

In 2007 population density was 49.49 inhabitants/km2. The population has almost doubled since 1980, when it was 92,817. Today it is over 190,000 with fewer than 20,000 living in the rural area. (IBGE/Sepin)

In 1996 the population had grown to 246,000, but then the city lost much of its territory and population due to the formation of new municipalities like Valparaíso de Goiás and Cidade Ocidental.

Since 1996 the population has continued to grow...

Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.