This article aims to analyze The Feast of Santo Domingo in the Pinheirópolis Community, in Porto
Nacional, Tocantins, in the perspective of cultural geography. As methodological procedures, we
opted for a review on the theme of popular Catholic festivals and cultural geography and religion and
interviews with people from the community, as well as participant observation. We concluded that
when control of the feast went out of the hands of the community and went to the care of the church,
the interest of the residents in participating in the preparations for the feast diminished, and when
they did not feel theybelonged and were involved as subjects of the feast, the church, a fact that may
have contributed to disinterest and in religion itself, leading many people to a change of creed.
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