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Key facts

Settlement.name
Cataguases
Settlement.settlement_type
Municipality
Settlement.official_name
Municipality of Cataguases
Settlement.image_skyline
Paço Municipal de Cataguases.jpg
Settlement.image_flag
Bandeira_Cataguases.png
Settlement.image_seal
Brasao_Cataguases.png
Settlement.image_map
MinasGerais Municip Cataguases.svg
Settlement.pushpin_map
Brazil
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
Location of Cataguases, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Settlement.subdivision_type
Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1
Region
Settlement.subdivision_type2
State
Settlement.subdivision_name1
Southeast
Settlement.established_date
30 May 1850
Settlement.area_total_km2
492
Settlement.population_as_of
2020
Settlement.population_total
75,540
Settlement.timezone
BRT

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Wikidata facts

Demonym
cataguasense
Country
Brazil
Located in
Minas Gerais
Population
58138
Area
491.767
Elevation
232
Shares border with
Guidoval
Official website
www.cataguases.mg.gov.br
Image
Vista Cataguases.jpg
Dialing code
32
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Commons category
Cataguases
postal code
36770-000 - 36779-999
Human Development Index
0.751
electorate
53367
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Encyclopedic overview

6 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Climate
  • Temperatures
  • See also
  • References

Cataguases is a municipality located in the southeastern part of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The estimated population in 2020 was 75,540. It is mainly an industrial centre (textile, metallurgy, clothes) with a strong influence of coffee plantation in its early history (19th century).

== History == In the 1920s, the city was associated with the Brazilian cinema pioneer Humberto Mauro and a generation of writers for the short-lived Revista Verde. Humberto Mauro shot there some films that earned him a good reputation nationwide. He later made Braza Dormida (Sleeping Fire) and O Descobrimento do Brasil (The Finding of Brazil) and was a reputed Tupi language scholar.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cataguases” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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