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Coordinates: 21°45′14″S 41°19′26″W / 21.75389°S
41.32389°W / -21.75389;
-41.32389
Campos dos Goytacazes is a municipality and city
located in the northern area of Rio de Janeiro
State, Brazil, with a
population of 431,839 inhabitants. Its area is 4,031.910 km²,
which makes it the largest municipality in the state and its
elevation is 14 m. Its name comes from the geographical
characteristic of the region, very flat with fields ("campos" in
Portuguese) and from the Goytacazes Indians, that inhabited the
region. Campos, as the city is usually known, is a macro region of
the Northern Fluminense, and is a micro region of Campos dos
Goytacazes. The city has a tropical climate.
The colonization of the area started in the 16th century, and on
May 29, 1677 was created the São Salvador de Campos de Goytacazes
village. On March 28, 1835 the village was promoted to city
status.
The city's distance to Rio de Janeiro city, which is the
capital of the state, is 286 km, and the BR-101 is the access
highway of the city of Campos. Regular air services are operated
from its airport Bartolomeu Lysandro. It is
the easternmost municipality in Rio de Janeiro.
The Roman Catholic Diocese of
Campos was the see of Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer,
nicknamed "The Lion of Campos", who was one of the bishops who
opposed the Vatican II reforms and who teamed with
Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of Dakar to consecrate
four independent bishops in Econe, Switzerland, 1991. Nowadays
there are in Campos two Roman Catholic jurisdictions: a Diocese,
whose Bishop is Monsignor Roberto Gomes Guimarães and the
Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney,
whose Apostolic Administrator is Monsignor Fernando Areas
Rifan.
Economy
The GDP for
the city was R$ 16,116,180,000 (2005).[1]
The per
capita income for the city was R$ 37,813 (2005).[2]
Education
Portuguese language is the official
national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools.
But English and Spanish are
part of the official high school curriculum.
Educational institutions
Sports
There are at least three football (soccer) clubs in the
city: Americano Futebol Clube, Goytacaz Futebol Clube and Clube Esportivo Rio Branco.
The derby between Americano and Goytacaz is known as
Goyta-cano.
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