File:LagoaMaioremTresLagoas22.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Central-West
- State
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Mesoregion
- East of Mato Grosso do Sul
- Mayor
- Dr. Cassiano Maia
- Total
- 3,940.701 sq mi (10,206.370 km )
- Time zone
- UTC−4 ( AMT )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Demonym
- três-lagoense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Mato Grosso do Sul
- Population
- 68162
- Area
- 10206.370
- Elevation
- 319
- Shares border with
- Castilho
- Official website
- www.treslagoas.ms.gov.br
- Image
- PAISAGENS TRÊS LAGOAS-MS HISTORICO 85.jpg
- Dialing code
- 67
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- Três Lagoas
- topic's main category
- Category:Três Lagoas
- inception
- 1915-00-00
- Commons gallery
- Três Lagoas
- postal code
- 79600-000 a 79649-999
- Human Development Index
- 0.744
- electorate
- 76157
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Três Lagoas ("Three Ponds") is a municipality in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. It is the third most populous city in that state. Founded in 1915, colonization began in 1880 by Luís Correia Neves Filho, Antônio Trajano dos Santos e Protásio Garcia Leal. It is named for three lakes in the region.
The city itself has a population of 143,523. The city has a reasonable income distribution and does not have pockets of poverty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Três Lagoas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.