Sao Simao

Sao Simao is a municipality in south-crucial Goias country, Brazil. The history of the town is connected to the development of the Sao Simao dam and electricity station. Before 1930 the vicinity changed into nearly uninhabited. A small settlement seemed on the banks of the Paranaiba inhabited by using diamond miners and fishermen. In 1935 a bridge was constructed connecting the states of Goias and Minas Gerais and the city started to prosper. The populace become already approximately 7,000. In 1957 this concrete bridge become washed away by torrential rains.

The date continues to be remembered via the locals as Judgement Day. In 1961 a new bridge changed into finished and inaugurated by using President Juscelino Kubitschek. In 1975, with the building of the dam, a new city for 10,000 humans become created with mercury lamps, paved streets, and modern colleges. The location has properly highway connections and is crossed by means of BR-365, which links Sao Simao to the Triangulo Mineiro and Sao Paulo; BR-364, which connects to the southeast of Goias and Mato Grosso; and GO-060 and GO-164 with links to Goiania and Brasilia.