Vilhena

Vilhena is the easternmost municipality within the Brazilian nation of Rondonia. Its populace was 95,630 and its region is 11,519 km². It is the 5th-largest metropolis in Rondonia and has the best HDI inside the kingdom. According to IBGE-2015, Vilhena also had a GDP of R$ 1.824.367,69, which represented a GDP in keeping with capita of R$ 23.0.5,20. In common with many different municipalities of Rondonia, Vilhena was began inside the early 20th century, round 1910, when Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon built telegraph posts inside the fields of the Plateau Parecis, linking numerous cities between Cuiaba and Porto Velho.

Towns frequently could upward thrust round these posts, Vilhena protected. Migration from southern and southeastern regions brought on the populace to boom in 1959 after the development of toll road BR-364, which connects the north with the relaxation of the united states of america and changed into paved in 1986. The period in which the populace rose more dramatically changed into the 1970s, as from 1964 many migrants from everywhere in the USA. Have been attracted to the location due to the distribution of land to settlers by using INCRA.