Arraias

Arraias is a Brazilian municipality inside the nation of Tocantins. It has an area of 5419,9 km². It is the best city inside the state of Tocantins and the second one highest city within the complete Northern Region of Brazil, being situated at an average altitude of 722.40 meters. Arraias is also the coldest town of Tocantins and one of the coldest of all of the North Region of the US. Its envisioned populace in 2004 turned into of 10 970 inhabitants. Born inside the golden age of mining in Brazil, the metropolis also met the needs for valuable metals, extra specifically gold and silver, inside the colonial period. This exploration happened simultaneously with that of the city of Goias, better called Goias-Velho, former capital of the kingdom of Goias.

The municipality has a extraordinary traveller potential, nevertheless unexplored. Places which include the Grotto Grotto, the ruins of the Chapada dos Negros, religious activities, the "harmless" carnival and a totally strong contact with quilombolas, except the white craft jars ordinary of Arraias have not yet attracted the interest of marketers who can leverage improvement of the vicinity. In the architecture of the municipality predominates the Portuguese colonial style. In the oldest houses, possible find the initials of the patriarchs of the households who constructed them and the year in which they have been constructed.