Crixás is a municipality in northwestern Goiás state, Brazil.

Crixás was a major gold producing area but is now gradually losing population.

Crixás is 334 kilometers from the state capital, Goiânia, and is in the São Miguel do Araguaia Microregion.

The history of Crixás begins in the eighteenth century with the discovery of gold.

There is also a campus of the Universidade Estadual de Goiás, or UEG, with courses in Pedagogy, Letters, Geography, History, and Mathematics.