Barbacena
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Barbacena is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As of 2020, the municipality had 138,204 inhabitants. The total area of the municipality is .
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Barbacena
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.official_name
- Municipality of Barbacena
- Settlement.nickname
- "BQ"
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Praça dos Andradas com igreja.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Andradas Square
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeirabarba.png
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasaobarbacena.gif
- Settlement.image_map
- MinasGerais_Municip_Barbacena.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Minas Gerais
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Intermediate Region
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- Immediate Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Minas Gerais
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Southeast
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Barbacena
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Wikidata facts
- Demonym
- barbacenense
- Population
- 99954
- Area
- 759.186
- Elevation
- 1160
- Official website
- www.barbacena.mg.gov.br
- Image
- Praça dos Andradas com igreja.jpg
- Dialing code
- 32
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- P12749
- Lake Coleridge
- Commons category
- Barbacena (Minas Gerais)
- postal code
- 36200
- Human Development Index
- 0.798
- inception
- 1791-01-01
- P8168
- Tolkien family
- electorate
- 98746
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Barbacena is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As of 2020, the municipality had 138,204 inhabitants. The total area of the municipality is .
Barbacena is known for its strong Italian influence. The Rodrigo Silva Colonial Nucleus was established in the late 19th century, and the immigration process lasted until the early 20th century. Most of the immigrants came from the Veneto region. Currently, Rodrigo Silva colonial nucleus is part of the territory of the city of Antônio Carlos (separated from Barbacena in 1948) and of the homonymous neighborhood "Colônia".
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