Anápolis, Goiás, Central-West Region, Brazil

🇧🇷 Anápolis is a Brazilian municipality of the State of Goiás. It is located between two capitals, the federal capital Brasília and state capital Goiânia. It is the third most populous city in the state. It is an important industrial and logistics centre in the Brazilian Central-West. Its GDP is R$ 10 billion, approximately US$4.4 billion, which makes it the second largest in the state. The city became an industrial power after the implementation of its Industrial District in 1970.

Anápolis is located in Center-Western Brazil. It is located in a plateau, called Central Plateau, at an elevation of 1,017 metres (3,337 ft). The area is 918.3 square km (354.6 sq mi), and the limiting municipalities are Abadiânia, Campo Limpo de Goiás, Gameleira de Goiás, Goianápolis, Leopoldo de Bulhões, Nerópolis, Pirenópolis, Silvânia and Terezópolis de Goiás. Anápolis is also the centre of the Anápolis Microregion, and belongs to the Goiás Center mesoregion.

Transport Anápolis is located on the main Brasília-Goiânia highway (BR 060), which has now become a four-lane motorway. It is also the starting point for the famous Belém-Brasília highway (BR 153). Distances to Goiânia is 54 km (34 mi), to Brasília is 140 km (87 mi) and to São Paulo 872 km (542 mi).

The municipality is served by a branch of the Centro-Atlântica railroad, with 685 km (426 mi) of network in Goiás, which allows for connections with the important ports of the country. Anápolis will be the starting point for the north–south railroad, in construction, which will connect with the Port of Itaqui, in Maranhão, as well as with other strategic points in the North and Northeast. The proposed Expresso Pequi rail service between Brasília and Goiânia is planned to serve a station in Anápolis. Anápolis has a municipal airport, which is being upgraded to a cargo facility.

Economy Anápolis is one of the most developed municipalities in the state. It also has one of the fastest developing industrial sectors with several pharmaceutical plants. Transportation is good, with highways linking the city with both Goiânia and Brasília.

There is a large pool of educated professionals produced by the several institutions of higher learning in the city, e.g. the State University of Goiás. The surrounding land is excellent for intensive production of fruit like oranges, bananas, and sugarcane.

All of these factors make Anápolis the most competitive city after the capital.

• Gross Domestic Product: 6.265 billion Reais in 2008 as pointed out by IBGE, which was the second largest in the state after Goiânia and the seventh largest in Brazil. This PIB was 5.7% of the state PIB of 75.274 billion Reais in 2008 as referenced by IBGE IBGE - Cidades@. See Portalsepin for the complete list of all municipalities in Goiás.

Hyundai has a plant in Anápolis, which produces the Hyundai Tucson and Hyundai HB20.

Ranking of Anápolis on list of top ten municipalities in GDP in Goiás in 2012 and 2015 (in Reais) IBGE - Cidades@: • Goiânia - R$46.632.000 billion • Anápolis - R$13.301.000 billion • Aparecida de Goiânia - R$11.518.000 billion • Rio Verde - R$8.078.000 billion • Catalão - R$5.679.000 billion • Itumbiara - R$3.971.000 billion • Jataí - R$3.842.000 billion • Luziânia - R$3.353.000 billion • São Simão - R$3.106.000 billion • Senador Canedo -R$ 2.685.000 billion • Gross Domestic Product per capita: 18,910 Reais in 2008, which was just above the state average of 12,878 Reais in the same year.

Historically Anápolis has always been the centre of a rich agricultural area. Animal raising has always been the main economic mainstay of the region. In 2003 the municipality had 65,000 head of beef cattle, 8,000 pigs, 138,000 poultry (second place in the state), and 9,500 head of dairy cattle. In addition, rice (1 km2 / 160 tons), corn (16 km2 / 7,200 tons), and soybeans (17 km2 / 4,590 tons) are also grown in quantity.

Other important crops: • tomatoes: 0,5 km2 / 2,250 tons • wheat: 0.8 km2 / 360 tons • sugarcane: 0.2 km2 / 800 tons • manioc: 2 km2 / 3,000 tons • bananas: 8.3 km2 / 8,300 tons • coffee: 0.5 km2 / 30 tons • coconut: 0.27 km2 / 216 thousand fruits • citrus fruits: 2.75 km2 / 3,800 tons • passion fruit: 0.05 km2 / 40 tons

DAIA (Distrito Agro-Industrial de Anapolis) is the industrial sector of Anapolis. It includes many large companies such as Laboratório Teuto Brasil, a pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant, the largest generic medicine-producing plant in Brazil. The federal government decided to build a major logistical centre around the DAIA, which is a distribution point for goods throughout Brazil by road, rail and air.

The main entrepreneurial sectors employing workers in 2003 were the transformation industry with 12,980 workers, construction with 1,222 workers, commerce with 18,114 workers, hotels and restaurants with 1,635 workers, transportation with 3,880 workers, services with 2,429 workers, public administration, defense, and social security with 6,724 workers, education with 3,723 workers, and health with 2,247 workers.

There were 23 financial institutions in 2004.