Santos Dumont
Sign in to savetown and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Southeast
- State
- Minas Gerais
- Founded
- July 27, 1889
- Mayor
- Carlos Alberto de Azevedo
- Elevation
- 839 m (2,753 ft)
- Total
- 46,421
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
- Postal code
- 36240-000
- Hdi 2010
- 0.741 – high
- Website
- www .santosdumont .mg .gov .br
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Named after
- Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Demonym
- sandumonense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Minas Gerais
- Population
- 44965
- Area
- 637.373
- Elevation
- 839
- Shares border with
- Tabuleiro
- Official website
- www.santosdumont.mg.gov.br
- Image
- Santos dumont mg.JPG
- Dialing code
- 32
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- Commons category
- Santos Dumont (Minas Gerais)
- postal code
- 36240-000
- Human Development Index
- 0.766
- inception
- 1889-07-27
- electorate
- 38172
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Encyclopedic overview
Santos Dumont (formerly known as Palmira) is a municipality in southern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population (2020) is estimated to be 46,421 and the total area of the municipality is 639.1 km (246.8 mi). It lies at an elevation of 839 m (2,753 ft) just off the main interstate highway, BR040, between the urban centers of Barbacena (north) and Juiz de Fora (south). It is 240 km (150 mi) from the state capital, Belo Horizonte, and 220 km (140 mi) from Rio de Janeiro. It became a city in 1889.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Santos Dumont” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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