Carmo do Rio Claro
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| Carmo do Rio Claro | |||
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| Nickname: "Carmo" | |||
| Motto: Fluctuat, nec mergitur | |||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| Region | Southeast | ||
| State | Minas Gerais | ||
| Government | |||
| - Mayor | Angelo Leite Pereira | ||
| Area | |||
| - City | 1,064.790 km² (411.1 sq mi) | ||
| Elevation | 785 m (2,575.5 ft) | ||
| Population (2006) | |||
| - City | 21.404 | ||
| - Density | 20.1/km² (52.1/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | UTC-3 (UTC-3) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | UTC-2 (UTC-2) | ||
Carmo do Rio Claro is a city and municipality located in the south-west of Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The estimated population in 2004 was 21,404 inhabitants. The total area of the municipality is 1,064.790 km2 and the elevation is 785 meters. The distance to the state capital, Belo Horizonte is 374 km.
The characteristic vegetation of the municipality is cerrado but there is still some gallery forest along the rivers.
The climate of the municipality is classified as subtropical mesothermic, characterized by dry winters and wet summers. The average temperature in winter is approximately 16ºC and the average of the hottest month is about 27ºC. The period between December and February is the rainiest. The driest months are from April to September
Carmo do Rio Claro is watered by the Furnas Dam.
Carmo do Rio Claro is part of the Guaxupé diocese.
[edit] History and Economy
Its believed that the initial core of the town occurred during the Bandeiras with José Barbosa de Arruda and Domingos Ferreira de Avelar, reminiscents of the Lourenço Castanho Bandeira's, known for having expulsed the natives Cataguases from the region of Tamanduá (Itapecerica).
Initially with the help of locals, José Joaquim Santana, built in his lands a small chapell in the place where today is the main church Igreja Matriz de Carmo do Rio Claro. The freguesia de Nossa Senhora do Carmo do Monte do Rio Claro was created in 1810, in the lands inside the Princess Campaign area, to be later, 1814, included to the Jacuí municipality.
The fertility of its lands propitiated the development of great farms, economic basis of the town, which in 1848 started to be part of Passos.
