Pirapora
Sign in to savePirapora is a municipality in northcentral Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population is 56,640 (2020 est.) in an area of . The name Pirapora comes from the Tupi words for "fish" + "jump", referring to the piracema season when a mass migration of fishes ascends the São Francisco River to spawn.
Key facts
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- Municipality
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- View of Pirapora
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- Location in Minas Gerais state
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- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
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- Country
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- Brazil
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- Region
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- Southeast
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- State
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- Minas Gerais
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- Mesoregion
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- Microregion
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- Metrop. region
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Part of
- North Minas
- Demonym
- Piraporense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Minas Gerais
- Population
- 46351
- Area
- 575.460
- Elevation
- 679
- Body of water
- São Francisco River
- Shares border with
- Várzea da Palma
- Official website
- www.pirapora.mg.gov.br
- Image
- PIRAPORA-MG.2013.JPG
- Dialing code
- 38
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- Commons category
- Pirapora
- Human Development Index
- 0.731
- inception
- 1912-01-01
- postal code
- 39270-000 a 39279-999
- electorate
- 41242
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Location
- Microregion of Pirapora
- History
- Economy
- Health and education
- Climate
- See also
- References
- External links
Pirapora is a municipality in northcentral Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population is 56,640 (2020 est.) in an area of . The name Pirapora comes from the Tupi words for "fish" + "jump", referring to the piracema season when a mass migration of fishes ascends the São Francisco River to spawn.
==Location== Pirapora belongs to its own statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 472 meters. It became a municipality in 1912. This municipality is located on the right bank of the São Francisco River and is 340 km from the state capital.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pirapora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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