Campos Verdes

Campos Verdes is a municipality in north Goiás state, Brazil.

It is located 321 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia in the Porangatu Microregion.

It is the typical example of the mining town that grew overnight, with almost no infrastructure, and soon lost its population due to the disappearance of the mineral that had created its wealth.

Attracted by the mines, the first settlers began to arrive, forming a settlement called Garimpo, which at the time was a district of Santa Terezinha de Goiás.

The literacy rate in 2000 was 81.7 Seplan The score on the Municipal Human Development Index was 0.694.