Trindade

Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).

Trindade is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Goiás, in the Centre-West Region of the country. It belongs to the Metropolitan Region of Goiânia, situated about 16 km from the state capital. It covers an area of approximately 719 km², and its population in 2022 was 142,431 inhabitants, placing it as the ninth most populous municipality in the state of Goiás. According to State Law No. 22,813 of 27 June 2024, the symbolic seat of the Capital of the State of Goiás functions in the municipality of Trindade each year, on the Thursday before the closing date of the Festival of the Divine Eternal Father.

Settlement began in the middle of the 19th century, when the prospecting couple Ana Rosa and Constantino Xavier found a medallion depicting the Divine Eternal Father on the banks of the Barro Preto Stream, which later gave its name to the then hamlet of Campininhas das Flores. Through devotion to the image, countless religious people began to visit the chapel built by the couple, where a replica of the medallion was displayed. Trindade was emancipated from the old city of Campinas, of which it had been a district, in 1920, having already gone through a religious expansion marked by the institutionalisation of German priests who drove the Festival of the Divine Eternal Father and the construction of the Trindade Mother Church. Since then, the municipality has been well known for its cultural traditions and religious celebrations that attract millions of people every year.

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