Aiuruoca
Town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Municipality in Minas Gerais, Brazil
Aiuruoca | |
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Municipality of Aiuruoca | |
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![]() Location in Minas Gerais | |
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Region | Southeast |
Intermediate Region | Pouso Alegre |
Immediate Region | Caxambu-Baependi |
Founded | 1706 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Erlisson Vitor Lopes (PSD) |
Area | |
• Total | 649.680 km2 (250.843 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[1] | |
• Total | 5,949 |
• Density | 9.2/km2 (24/sq mi) |
Demonym | aiuruocano |
Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
Postal Code | 37450-000 to 37451-999 |
HDI (2010) | 0.668 – medium[2] |
Website | aiuruoca |
Aiuruoca is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In 2020 its population was estimated to be 5,976.[3]
Aiuruoca was founded in 1706.
In the 1920s, Danish immigrants in rural parts of Aiuruoca laid the foundation for the production of the Brazilian cheese queijo prato.[4]
The municipality contains 15.76% of the 22,917 hectares (56,630 acres) Serra do Papagaio State Park, created in 1998.[5]
21°58′S 44°36′W / 21.967°S 44.600°W / -21.967; -44.600
References
[edit]- ^ "IBGE Aiuruoca". IBGE. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 8, 2014. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Reportagens". revistagloborural.globo.com. Archived from the original on 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2016-04-25.
- ^ PES da Serra do Papagaio (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental, retrieved 2016-09-27
External links
[edit] Media related to Aiuruoca at Wikimedia Commons
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