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Planura
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Planura
Total population
11,145
Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
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Overview
Planura is a municipality in the west of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020 the population was 12,292 in a total area of 318 km2. It became a municipality in 1962.
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History
The first settlement began on lands belonging to João Januário da Silva e Oliveira, on the banks of the Rio Grande. The first group of houses was known as Porto do Cemitério, later changing the name to Esplanada. In 1938 it became a district of Frutal with the name Nova Esplanada. In 1962 it became a municipality. The growth of the town has been due to the building of the Usina Hidrelétrica de Porto Colômbia, in the 1970s. The name is due to the flat lands of the region.
Geography
Planura belongs to the statistical micro-region of Frutal. It is located in the center of the rich region of western Minas Gerais known as the Triângulo Mineiro at an elevation of 492 meters. The Rio Grande, dammed to form the Represa de Porto Colômbia, forms the southern boundary. Neighboring municipalities are: *West: Frutal *North: Pirajuba *East: Conceição das Alagoas *South: Colômbia in the state of São Paulo Important distances are: *Belo Horizonte: 578 km *Pirajuba: 30 km *Frutal: 37 km *Uberaba: 110 km
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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
- Conceição das Alagoas26 mi away · pop. 28,381
- Água Comprida39.1 mi away · pop. 2,108
- Coqueiros63.9 mi away
- Jubaí68.1 mi away
- São Francisco de Sales71.8 mi away · pop. 5,732
- Guaxima75.6 mi away
- Tapuirama84.8 mi away
- Monte Alegre de Minas88.2 mi away · pop. 20,170
- Colina dos Borges90.2 mi away
- Zelândia91.5 mi away
- Indianópolis91.6 mi away · pop. 6,171
- Perdizinha92.8 mi away
Geography & sun
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
- 3151602
- UF
- MG
- Mesorregião
- Triângulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaíba
- Microrregião
- Frutal
servicodados.ibge.gov.br
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • 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