Barra do Garças

Barra do Garças
Barra do Garças with the Rio Araguaia on the left side of the picture and to the right of it the Rio Garças (looking south)
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Municipality of Barra do Garças in Mato Grosso Barra do Garças Location of the city of Barra do Garças in Brazil
Basic data
State :	Brazil (BRA)
Administrative structure :	Midwest
State :	Mato Grosso (MT)
Mesoregion :	Nordeste Mato-Grossense (1989 to 2017)
Microregion :	Médio Araguaia (1989 to 2017)
Geographic location :	15 ° 53 ′  S , 52 ° 15 ′  W
Time zone :	UTC −4 summer : UTC − 3
Height :	318  m
Area :	9,141.841 km²
Residents :	56,560
Population density :	6.2 inhabitants / km²
Telephone code :	+55 66
Post code ( CEP ):	78600-000
Address of the municipal administration:	Rua Carajás, 522 Setor Centro
Official Website:	barradogarcas.mt.gov.br
E-mail address:	[e-mail]
Anniversary:	September 15th
Founding year:	1948
politics
mayor	Roberto Angelo de Farias, 2017–2020
Vice Mayor	Weliton Marcos

Barra do Garças , officially Portuguese Município de Barra do Garças , is a political municipality in the midwest in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso on the border with Goiás . It is located west of the Brazilian capital Brasília and east of the capital Cuiabá .

The city is located northwest of the confluence of the Rio Garças in the Rio Araguaia , where the flow conditions form sandbanks , which is also reflected in the city's name, in English sandbank of the herons . The city, along with Aragarças and Pontal do Araguaia, is a popular tourist destination, especially during the dry season from June to August, when the low water levels of the two rivers reveal large sandy beaches and banks. There is then a wide range of water sports. The city's thermal springs are also known . The surrounding mountains with their waterfalls and bizarre rock formations are a popular destination for hiking / climbing ecotourists .

Geographical location

Administrative structure

Barra do Garças borders

• to the north to the municipality of Novo Xavantina
• to the east at Araguiania
• to the south at Aragarças ( GO ) and Pontal do Araguaia
• to the west to General Carneiro
• in the northwest on Nova São Joaquim

Other settlements in the municipality are:

• Avoadeira
• Campo Formoso
• Capa
• Duas Barras
• Duas Pontes (Two Bridges)
• Indianópolis
• Nova Viena
• Passover-Vinte
• Torigueije
• Vale dos Sonhos (Valley of Dreams)

Hydrographic location

Barra do Garças drains completely via the Rio Araguaia into the Tocantins Basin , which, together with the Rio Garças, marks the municipal boundary in the south. The left Araguaia tributary Rio das Mortes in the northwest and the Ribeirão Insula in the east also mark the municipality boundary.

topography

The southern foothills of the Serra do Roncador characterize the landscape in the north of the municipality, namely the mountains:

• Serra Azul (746 m)
  with the Parque Estadual da Serra Azul reserve
• Serra do Taquaral (788 m)
• Serra dos Gerais (842 m)

with many wonderful waterfalls, a landing place for UFOs and a statue of Christ, which is modeled on the one in Rio de Janeiro . In the west there are foothills of the Serra das Furnas (566 m), in which the two Indian reservations São Marcos (MT) and Merure are located.

Transport links

In Barra do Garças the radial (east-west) federal road BR-070 crosses with the longitudinal (north-south) BR-158 .

sons and daughters of the town

• Nilton Ferreira Júnior (* 1987), football player

See also

• Diocese of Barra do Garças

Web links

Commons : Barra do Garças  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• History of Barra do Garças ( IBGE library, Portuguese; PDF; 70 kB)
• Detailed map , IBGE
• Barra do Garças - Panorama. IBGE , accessed April 20, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese, updated statistics). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2010 census, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística ( IBGE ), last accessed: May 15, 2011 ( port. )
2. ↑ Mato Grosso: Politische Karte ( IBGE ), last accessed: May 15, 2011
3. ↑ ^{a b} Mapa físico do Estado de Mato Grosso. IBGE , 2010, accessed on April 20, 2018 (geophysical map of Mato Grosso with waters and elevations). 
4. ↑ Sema reabre dois atrativos do Parque Estadual Serra Azul. In: gov.br. www.mt.gov.br, accessed April 11, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 

Coordinates: 15 ° 53 ′  S , 52 ° 15 ′  W