Guiratinga (also known as Princess Eastern and initially as Lageado) is a city in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, distant about 320 miles from the capital Cuiabá.

The story must be told Guiratinga from the nineteenth century (1890) by Sinalada raids Antônio Cândido de Carvalho, through Eastern Mato Grosso, pioneering and helping build several villages.

Thanks to the persistent work of the Salesian Fathers and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, who managed to pacify the Bororo was it possible to make the area habitable by white civilization.

By this time, came from Goiás and Minas families Moraes, Cajango and Balbino who settled in the region in order to explore the creation of cattle and subsistence farming.

In the year 1900, passes through the farm Boa Vista, a Bahian name Sezilo Feliciano dos Santos, who hears all aware of stories told by Cajango.

Gone until 1929, although Guiratinga getting a sharp stream of people from Minas Gerais, Goiás and the diamond washings of Bahia, was known simply as "village of Lageado", and belonged to the municipality of Santa Rita do Araguaia.

With the operation of a gravel surfaced, and excavations gave abundant quantities of diamonds in the mines of the Herons Lageado improved and grew significantly and 25.09.1929, under State Law No.

With the elevation of the condition Lageado district county seat, Santa Rita do Araguaia, entered into deep decay, the political, economic and social.

With the political emancipation, the then mayor of Santa Rita do Araguaia, Dr. Julian Jose da Silva, was taking office in Lageado most did not, and was appointed 1st Lieutenant.