Highway connections from Goiânia are made by GO-080 / Nerópolis / São Francisco de Goiás / BR-153 / Jaraguá / Rialma / GO-434.

The history of Ipiranga de Goiás is connected to the decree of 1941 creating the agricultural colony called Colonia Agrícola Nacional de Goiás, administered by the engineer Bernardo Sayão.

In 1949 the dentist Raimundo Alves de Souza arrived with his family and fought to make a city out of Ipiranga.

See Ipiranga de Goiás Archived 2008-02-24 at the Wayback Machine for the history.

The main crops were rice, sugarcane (3,300 hectares), manioc, corn, and beans.