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Baependi
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Baependi
Total population
18,366
Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Baependi is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Minas Gerais.
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History
According to some reports, mining occurred in the southern region from 1601. The conquest of Baependi happened, however, at the end of the seventeenth century, around 1692, when the Paulistas Antonio Delgado da Veiga, his son Joao da Veiga and uncle Miguel Garcia and Captain Manoel Garcia Velho, started from Taubaté in search of gold. Crossing the Serra da Mantiqueira, they reached a site called maependi (mbaé-pindi means "open clearing" in Tupi-guarani). The city is a remnant of the so-called cycle of Gold in Minas Gerais. Baependi developed along the Estrada Real - the first major means of regular communication in Brazil which linked the mines to the port of Paraty in Rio de Janeiro from where gold was shipped to Europe. The Madeiran Tomé Rodrigues Nogueira do Ó (1715), Captain-mor and Ombudsman of Quintos the "registration of the Mantiqueira" was one of the first residents of the site and is considered the founder of the city as the first builder. Mining was, gradually, replaced by agriculture and cattle breeding. It had a large tobacco plantation, which made Baependi the centre of production of the province of Minas Gerais and represented a major source of wealth until the mid-nineteenth century. Nowadays the municipality's economy is based on agriculture, handicrafts, gem stones, quartzite and tourism, due to the natural environment of the city, surrounded by mountains, forests, rivers and numerous waterfalls. Craft is an important economic activity in Baependi. Pieces made in bamboo, straw, corn and coffee wood are distributed in large urban centres such as São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
Geography
The population of Baependi as of 2020 was estimated to be 19,199 people living at an altitude of 893 meters. The area of the municipality is 751.748 km2. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the microregion of São Lourenço. The municipality contains 39.93% of the Serra do Papagaio State Park, created in 1998.
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Geography
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Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Minas Gerais
- Cruzília9.7 mi away · pop. 15,362
- Pouso Alto17.2 mi away · pop. 6,566
- São Tomé das Letras17.4 mi away · pop. 6,904
- Alagoa21.7 mi away · pop. 2,749
- Serranos24.8 mi away · pop. 1,990
- Minduri26.4 mi away · pop. 3,741
- Carvalhos27.6 mi away · pop. 4,422
- Cristina29.8 mi away · pop. 10,374
- Passa Quatro30.3 mi away · pop. 15,515
- Mirantão32.5 mi away
- Campanha33.9 mi away · pop. 15,935
- Maria da Fé39.4 mi away · pop. 14,247
Geography & sun
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Books about Baependi
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Official Identifiers
IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- IBGE code
- 3104908
- UF
- MG
- Mesorregião
- Sul/Sudoeste de Minas
- Microrregião
- São Lourenço
servicodados.ibge.gov.br
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikimedia Commons
- • Wikidata
- • iNaturalist
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • IBGE — Brazilian national statistics, via servicodados.ibge.gov.br (official municipal code, UF, mesorregião, microrregião, region)
- • IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics — servicodados.ibge.gov.br