Araguatins

Araguatins is a Brazilian municipality within the nation of Tocantins. It is placed within the micro-place of Bico do Papagaio, being at an altitude of 103 meters, located on the banks of the river Araguaia. The place where these days is Araguatins had as its first inhabitants the circle of relatives of Maximus Liborio da Paixao, in 1867. However, it become founded by means of Vicente Bernardino Gomes the subsequent year with the name of Sao Vicente do Araguaia village, on June nine, 1868. Vicente Bernardino, who formerly resided inside the Military Colony of Sao Joao do Araguaia, in the State of Para, resolved to climb the Araguaia Riverand look for a place in which he should observed a agreement. He took advantage of the life of big pointers, oitizeiros, amongst different nearby bushes and commenced their monetary exploitation.

In order to achieve this, it welcomed people from special regions who began to settle inside the locality. The town passes the class of municipality with the aid of the regulation nº 426 of 21 of June of 1913, that was sanctioned by using the Decree nº 3,639 of March five, 1914 and set up on November 12 of the equal year with the aid of Decree nº 3.774. In 1945, the seat of the Municipality changed into transferred to Itaguatins, through President Getulio Vargas. After 3 years of transfer of the headquarters, the Municipality turned into created for the second one time by way of Law nº 184 of October thirteen, 1948 and become reinstalled on January 1, 1949. With the advent of the State of Tocantins in 1989 the Municipality started out to integrate it, before it was a part of the State of Goias.