Sao Miguel do Araguaia

Sao Miguel do Araguaia is city in northeastern Goias kingdom, Brazil. It is the northernmost municipality in Goias, certainly one of the most important too, and a main producer of cattle. Sao Miguel is positioned in the Sao Miguel do Araguaia Microregion and is one of the maximum remote cities from the nation capital, Goiania, that's 486 kilometers away. There are motorway connections with Araguacu, state of Tocantins, 63 kilometers to the north; Nova Crixas, 102 kilometers to the south; and the district of Luis Alves, 45 kilometers to the west, on the Araguaia River.

The place acquired its first settlers in 1952 with the arrival of Jose Pereira do Nascimento, Lozorik Belem, and Ovidio Martins de Souza who sold large areas of land and started to raise cattle. Jose Pereira do Nascimento become a Spiritualist healer and attracted humans looking for a therapy for their ills. Soon a small settlement started to develop at the banks of the Sao Miguel River, called Sao Miguel. Soon the authorities surveyed the land and demarcated plenty for distribution to new farmers coming from the south of the country of Minas Gerais. In 1958 it passed without delay from district to municipality with its present name. The greatest duration of boom become inside the 1960s while hundreds of settlers arrived from the south of the usa receiving loose land to settle inside the region.