Campinorte

Campinorte is a municipality in north-central Goiás state, Brazil. The population was 12,764 (2020) in a total area of 1,068 km. Campinorte is located on the important Belém-Brasília, BR-153, and is 315 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia. It is 22 kilometers north of Uruaçu and just west of the great artificial lake of Serra da Mesa. Anápolis, the second most important city in the state, is 276 kilometers to the south. Campinorte belongs to the Porangatu Microregion. Municipal boundaries are with: The population density in 2007 was 9.08 inhabitants/km while the population growth rate for 2000–2007 was 0.08.%. The urban population was 7,448 and the rural population was 2,249. The origins of Campinorte go back to 1918. It was called Campinas.