Barra do Garças

Barra do Garças
Barra do Garças
Municipality
	View of Barra do Garças
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location in Mato Grosso state
	Barra do Garças Location in Brazil
	Coordinates: 15°53′24″S 52°15′24″W / 15.89000°S 52.25667°W
Country	Brazil
Region	Central-West
State	Mato Grosso
Population (2020 )
• Total	61,135
Time zone	UTC−4 (AMT)

Barra do Garças is a city with a population of 61,135 located in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, around 550 km (340 mi) from the capital city of Cuiabá. It was founded on 13 June 1924, but it became politically independent on the 15th of September 1948. Nowadays, Barra do Garças is the 8th biggest city in Mato Grosso. The city is situated on the border between the Mato Grosso and Goiás states and due to this the area is considered a geodesic 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 11,002 hectares (27,190 acres) Serra Azul State Park, created in 1994.^[2] 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.

References

^ IBGE 2020
^ Pedroni, Fernando; Sanchez, Maryland (2015), Parque Estadual Da Serra Azul – PESA (PDF) (in Portuguese), ICBS – Campus Universitário do Araguaia – UFMT, p. 1, archived from the original (PDF) on 20 December 2016, retrieved 11 December 2016