Carneirinho

History

The town of Carneirinho was founded in 1954 by the Carneiro family, thus the origin of the name. The first settlement had begun on the Bom Sucesso cattle ranch in the late nineteenth century. In 1941 a general store opened on the banks of the Mutuca stream and houses were built nearby. The first church was built in 1952, consecrated to Our Lady Aparecida. In 1962 the district of Carneirinho was established and in 1992 it became a municipality.

Geography

The municipality is composed of the districts of São Sebastião do Pontal, Estrela da Barra and Fátima do Pontal; and the villages of Aparecida do Paranaíba "Barbosa" and Gracilândia "Pereira". Carneirinho is located at an elevation of 431 meters in the extreme west of the state about 30 km east of the Represa da Ilha Solteira, which forms the Paraná River. It belongs to the microregion of Frutal. Neighboring municipalities are: *Northeast: Limeira do Oeste *East: Iturama *Southeast: Populina, Mesópolis e Santa Albertina in the state of São Paulo *South: Santa Rita d'Oeste and Santa Clara d'Oeste in the state of São Paulo *Northwest: Itajá in the state of Goiás *West: Aparecida do Taboado and Paranaíba in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul *Belo Horizonte: 823 km. *Iturama: 55 km. *Uberaba: 331 km.

Most-observed species

• Red-shouldered Macaw

  Diopsittaca nobilis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw

  Ara ararauna (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5
• Planalto Hermit

  Phaethornis pretrei (R.Lesson & Delattre, 1839) · Aves
  4
• Blue-winged Parrotlet

  Forpus xanthopterygius (Spix, 1824) · Aves
  4
• white-eyed conure

  Aratinga leucophthalma (Statius Muller, 1776) · Aves
  4
• peach-fronted conure

  Aratinga aurea (Gmelin, 1788) · Aves
  4
• Yellow-chevroned Parakeet

  Brotogeris chiriri (Vieillot, 1818) · Aves
  4
• Buff-necked Ibis

  Theristicus caudatus (Boddaert, 1783) · Aves
  4