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Poços de Caldas
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- State
- Minas Gerais
- Region
- Southeast
- Intermediate region
- Pouso Alegre
- Immediate region
- Poços de Caldas
- Founded
- 6 November 1872
- Mayor
- Paulo Ney de Castro Jr. ( PSDB )
- Municipality
- 546.958 km (211.182 sq mi)
- Urban
- 85 km (33 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 1,196 m (3,924 ft)
- Estimate 2025
- 172,339
- Density
- 299.369/km (775.361/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
- Hdi 2010
- 0.779 – high
- Website
- pocosdecaldas .mg .gov .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- poços-caldense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Minas Gerais
- Population
- 110123
- Area
- 547.059
- Elevation
- 1196
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Shares border with
- São Sebastião da Grama
- Official website
- www.pocosdecaldas.mg.gov.br
- Image
- Poços de caldas1.JPG
- Dialing code
- 35
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- Commons category
- Poços de Caldas
- Human Development Index
- 0.779
- postal code
- 37700-001 a 37719-999
- inception
- 1872-11-06
- electorate
- 119895
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Encyclopedic overview
Poços de Caldas is a municipality in the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name. Its estimated population in 2022 Census was 163,742 inhabitants. The city is known for its hot springs.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Poços de Caldas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.