Araguaína

Araguaína is a municipality in the northern Brazilian state of Tocantins and one of the larger urban centres of that state. The 2022 census counted 171,301 residents across a municipal area of about 4,000 square kilometres, so the municipality is mostly rural land around a compact city. The city has several higher education campuses, among them one of the Federal University of Tocantins and private institutions teaching medicine, dentistry, law and software development. Local buses are run by two cooperatives and the city is served by Araguaína Airport. The climate is tropical savanna with a wet season from November to April and a hot dry season from June to September, and the hottest months, September and October, bring average highs near 35 degrees Celsius. In 2025 Araguaína joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities.