Barra do Garças is a city with a population of 61,135 located in the Brazilian state of

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – ) is one of the states of Brazil, the List of Brazilian states by area, third largest by area, located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible ...

, around from the capital city of

Cuiabá Cuiabá () is the capital city and the largest city of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It is located near the geographical centre of South America and also forms the metropolitan area of Mato Grosso, along with the neighbouring town of Várz ...

. It was founded on 13 June 1924, but it became politically independent on 15 September 1948. Nowadays, Barra do Garças is the 8th biggest city in

. The city is situated on the border between the

and

Goiás Goiás () is a Brazilian States of Brazil, state located in the Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region. Goiás borders the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District and the states of (from north clockwise) Tocantins, Bahia, Minas Ge ...

states and due to this the area is considered a

geodesic In geometry, a geodesic () is a curve representing in some sense the locally shortest path ( arc) between two points in a surface, or more generally in a Riemannian manifold. The term also has meaning in any differentiable manifold with a conn ...

center. A small but developed tourist city due to high agriculture exportation and a strong military presence, Barra do Garças also has a Cristo Redentor (Christ the Redeemer) statue and is known as ''Rio de Janeiro do Oeste'' (Rio de Janeiro of the West.) The municipality contains the Serra Azul State Park, created in 1994. Barra do Garças has many other tourist attractions: a Discoporto, (UFOport), water parks, as well as hot springs, mountains, and fresh water beaches. The city is served by Barra do Garças Airport.

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Barra do Garças on TV Globo
Municipalities in Mato Grosso {{matoGrosso-geo-stub