Formiga
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- This article is about the Brazilian city. For the Brazilian football player, see Miraildes Maciel Mota.
Formiga is a small city and municipality in central-west Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population of the municipality (urban and rural) in 2005 was 58,880. The area of the municipality is 1,504 Km2 and the minimum elevation is 785.
Average annual temperature: 21.3 C Maximum annual temperature: 26.2 C Minimum annual temperature: 15.1 C
Average annual rainfall index: 1.400 mm
Main rivers: Rio Formiga, Rio Mata-Cavalo, Rio Pouso Alegre and Furnas Reservoir. Formiga is located in the Grande River basin.
The economy of Formiga is based on light industry, mainly clothing and furniture. In recent years, due to the proximity of the Furnas reservoir tourism has grown substantially. Furnas is an artificial lake fed by the Rio Grande and Sapucaí rivers and has an area of more than 1,400 km2. It is so big--the largest in Brazil when it was built in the 1960s--that it is called the Sea of Mina Gerais.
Formiga has one university--the Centro Universitário de Formiga [1], offering 17 majors.
