Itumbiara

Itumbiara is a municipality in the southern part of the state of Goiás, Brazil, on the border with Minas Gerais and a sister city of the Minas Gerais municipality of Araporã. It lies about 204 km south of the state capital Goiânia and 411 km from the federal capital Brasília, and covers 2,447 square kilometres. With 107,970 inhabitants at the 2022 census it is the thirteenth most populous municipality in Goiás. The area was opened by a road built in the early 1820s across the Paranaíba River, which led to a district named Santa Rita do Paranaíba in 1852; the municipality was established in 1909 under that name. The name Itumbiara comes from the Tupi language. It is regarded as the gateway to Goiás and is one of the state largest exporters.