Araguaína
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Araguaína is a city and a municipality
located in the Brazilian state of Tocantins
. Its population was 153 350 (2010) and its area is 4,000.40 km².
The city is home to ITPAC, an educational institute offering medical, dentistry, and lawyer careers. There is also a campus of The Federal University of Tocantins State UFT
in the city, in which the Veterinary College is actually located.
The city is served by Araguaína Airport
.
Municipality
A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...
located in the Brazilian state of Tocantins
Tocantins (state)
Tocantins is one of the states of Brazil. . The state was formed in 1988 out of the northern part of Goiás, and construction began on the capital, Palmas, in 1989, in contrast to most of the other cities in the state which date back to the Portuguese colonial period...
. Its population was 153 350 (2010) and its area is 4,000.40 km².
The city is home to ITPAC, an educational institute offering medical, dentistry, and lawyer careers. There is also a campus of The Federal University of Tocantins State UFT
UFT
UFT may stand for:*Unified field theory, a theory in physics*United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Victoria*United Federation of Teachers, a New York union*Universidade Federal do Tocantins, a Brazilian university...
in the city, in which the Veterinary College is actually located.
The city is served by Araguaína Airport
Araguaína Airport
Araguaína Airport is the airport serving Araguaína, Brazil.-History:The airport is the main gateway to the Northern region of the state of Tocantins, and Southern region of the states of Pará and Maranhão...
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