Itinga do Maranhao

Itinga do Maranhao is a Brazilian municipality positioned in the Amazon Region of the State of Maranhao, being the fourth maximum populous of the Microregion of Imperatriz and the 62^nd of the nation. The Itinga has a populace of 25,518 population in line with estimates of IBGE 2016 and 3,596.99 km², the 19^th biggest municipality in territorial extension of the kingdom. Founded in 1996, its fundamental source of income is the timber, farm animals and service industries.

The municipality is in an severe conurbation with Vila Bela Vista, district of the city of Dom Eliseu do Pará , inheriting greater cultural traits of the neighboring country than of the country itself. It is the city of Maranhao that proportional to its populace has the best percent of citizens of different Brazilian states, considering the fact that 23.7% of the population of the municipality is not a local of the state of Maranhao.

In 1959, because of the Belem-Brasília Highway, a small agreement become created at the banks of the Itinga River, inside the state of Maranhao. The river, later, might lend its name. A fact befell at some stage in the authorities of President Juscelino Kubitschek, had as its first residents, Manoel Pereira de Carvalho, Manoel da Silva and Manoel Barros and Darly Rosa. Another purpose that stimulated its introduction became the implementation of the Tax Office, within the forex.