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Ituiutaba
Minas Geraiscity
Ituiutaba
Total population
102,217
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Overview
Ituiutaba is a municipality in the western part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Elevated to city status in 1901, its population in 2022 Census was 102,217 and a total area in the municipality of 2,598 km2. The elevation of the seat of the municipality is 544 m.
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History
The settlement of the region began in 1820 when Joaquim Antonio de Morais and José da Silva Ramos arrived and expelled the native inhabitants, the Caiapós. The first name was Arraial de São José do Tijuco. In 1890 there were 5,000 inhabitants. In 1901 it became a municipality with the name Vila Platina, later changed in 1917 to Ituiutaba. Unveiling the congado history in Ituiutaba-MG In Ituiutaba reportedly some Congadeiros, the festivities took place on farms outside the city where they also raised their suits. With the becoming of time, the festival has become known, was brought to the city. However, the parish priest of the time did not accept that Congadeiros walk into the church, prohibiting the holding of the festival site. This ban was because the Congadeiros, did not follow the Catholic religion, but others of African origin. Meanwhile, around Ituiutaba, to honor his wife Geralda Ramos da Silva on his birthday on April 2, 1951, Mr. Demetrio Silva da Costa (Cyzicus) invited his father Marciano Silvestre da Costa, his brother Gerard Clarimundo Coast and several other friends to play Mozambique and commemorate the date. Upon learning of the incident, Ana Carolina Ribeiro (Dona Rosa), cousin of Cyzicus, invited the group to work together to bring the suit in Mozambique Ituiutaba and rekindle the devotion to St. Benedict with much dancing, partying and devotion. So they went to the parish priest of the time, Father John Ave, to communicate it and ask him to leave, next to the church, making the feast of St. Benedict and Our Lady of the Rosary. The pastor, not allowed, claiming that the Church had problems previously with the suits Congado that formerly existed in Ituiutaba, and that because of these clashes, had already fragmentado. In 1952, the newly created…
Geography
It is located in the west of the economic and geographical region called Triângulo Mineiro and is on BR 365, which begins at Chaveslândia in the west and connects as far as Pirapora in the north. Neighboring municipalities are Gurinhatã, Ipiaçú, Capinópolis, Canápolis, Santa Vitória, Monte Alegre de Minas, Prata, Campina Verde and the state of Goiás. *Uberlândia: 135 km *Uberaba: 237 km *Itumbiara: 110 km *Chaveslândia: 135 km *Belo Horizonte: 685 km Ituiutaba is also the name of statistical microregion 29 which includes 6 municipalities: Cachoeira Dourada, Capinópolis, Gurinhatã, Ipiaçu, Ituiutaba, and Santa Vitória. The population of this microregion was 135,140 (2000) and the area was 8,748.90 km2. The population density in 2000 was 15.45 inhabitants/km2. Classified as AW hot-humid (according to the Koppen classification), tropical with dry winter, with a well-defined rainy season from October to April and a dry season from May to September. Average temperatures range from 14 °C in June to 31 °C in December. The yearly average is 28 °C. Frost is rare. }}
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Nearby places in Minas Gerais
- Canápolis24.2 mi away · pop. 10,608
- Trevo27 mi away
- Monte Alegre de Minas38.7 mi away · pop. 20,170
- Prata42.3 mi away · pop. 28,342
- Comendador Gomes55.9 mi away · pop. 2,773
- Tupaciguara56.3 mi away · pop. 25,470
- Coqueiros61 mi away
- São Francisco de Sales65 mi away · pop. 5,732
- Piracaíba75 mi away
- Alexandrita82 mi away
- Limeira do Oeste83 mi away · pop. 8,687
- Carneirinho94.3 mi away · pop. 9,422
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- IBGE code
- 3134202
- UF
- MG
- Mesorregião
- Triângulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaíba
- Microrregião
- Ituiutaba
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Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikimedia Commons
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • 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