from the state capital, Goiânia and is connected by BR-352 / Bela Vista de Goiás / Cristianópolis / GO-020 / Pires do Rio / GO-330 / Ipameri / Catalão / BR-050.

In 1944 the name was changed to Rudá, which means God of love in the local indigenous language.

Later the name was changed back to Campo Alegre de Goiás when the town was detached from Ipameri and made a municipality.

The economy is based on agriculture, with important plantations of coffee, soybeans, wheat, corn, and cattle raising.

On the United Nations Human Development Index Campo Alegre had a rating of 0.802,which ranked it 9 out of a total of 242 municipalities in the state of Goiás.