| Summary: | This study aims to analyze the level of development of municipalities in the state of Paraná, through factor analysis. To this end, an index of development for the 399 municipalities in the state was calculated , 21 variables were selected , which , after being rotated four factors converged to analysis , which together explained 84.70 % of the total variance of this variables . The results show that stood out positively in the first positions , the cities of Curitiba , Araucaria , São José dos Pinhais and Carambeí. Moreover, in the last positions were the municipalities of Nova Tebas, Mato Rico, Laranjal and Altamira do Paraná, among other small municipalities. In the first positions in the ranking, there was a relatively uniform spatial distribution of the various areas of the state, while in the latter settings, there was a tendency to concentrate around the center of the state. It was also possible to detect a trend towards larger cities occupy the top positions, as most developed cities in the state of Paraná.
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