Muriaé

History

In 1817, Constantino José Pinto, with 40 men, a seller of herbs and medicinal roots, came down the Pomba River and reached Muriaé, where he stopped, building a hut near the waterfalls on the river. In 1819 the Frenchman Guido Tomáz Marliére arrived and built a chapel. In 1841 the district was created with the name of São Paulo do Muriahé. In 1855 this was elevated to the category of "vila" (village) with the same name. Finally in 1865 the comarca was created and the village became the city of Muriahé. In 1923 Muriahé became Muriaé out of spelling considerations. The progress of the new settlement was constant, especially after 1886 with the inauguration of the train station on the Leopoldina railroad line. In 1910 electricity came to the city, in 1911 the first water and sewage, and in 1913 the first urban telephone.

Geography

According to the regional division in effect since 2017, established by the IBGE, the municipality belongs to the Juiz de Fora Intermediate and Muriaé Immediate Geographic Regions. Until then, with the divisions into microregions and mesoregions in effect, it was part of the Muriaé microregion, which in turn was included in the Zona da Mata mesoregion. The municipality of Muriaé is entirely located within the Paraíba do Sul River basin. The main watercourses that flow through the municipality are the Muriaé River (a tributary of the Paraíba do Sul River) and the Glória River (a tributary of the Muriaé River).

Most-observed species

• Red-rumped Cacique

  Cacicus haemorrhous (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  116
• Gray-headed Tody-Flycatcher

  Todirostrum poliocephalum (Wied-Neuwied, 1831) · Aves
  114
• Great Kiskadee

  Pitangus sulphuratus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  111
• Southern House-Wren

  Troglodytes musculus J.F.Naumann, 1823 · Aves
  94
• Golden-crowned Warbler

  Basileuterus culicivorus (Deppe, 1830) · Aves
  89
• Yellow-olive Flycatcher

  Tolmomyias sulphurescens (Spix, 1825) · Aves
  88
• Rufous-fronted Thornbird

  Phacellodomus rufifrons (Wied-Neuwied, 1821) · Aves
  81
• Rufous-browed Peppershrike

  Cyclarhis gujanensis (Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  80