Carneirinho
Sign in to saveCarneirinho is a municipality in the westernmost tip of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Due to its location, it is the only municipality in Minas Gerais to border the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. the population was 10,066 in a total area of . It became a municipality in 1993.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Carneirinho
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.official_name
- The Municipality of Carneirinho
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeiracarneirinho.jpg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasaocarneirinho.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- MinasGerais Municip Carneirinho.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Minas Gerais
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Southeast
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Minas Gerais
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Dalva Maria de Queiroz Tiago
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- April 28, 1992
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2060.720
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Official name
- Carneirinho
- Demonym
- carneirinhense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Minas Gerais
- Population
- 9986
- Area
- 2060.720
- Elevation
- 436
- Shares border with
- Limeira do Oeste
- Official website
- www.carneirinho.mg.gov.br
- Image
- Carneirinho 3.jpg
- Dialing code
- 34
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- Commons category
- Carneirinho
- inception
- 1992-00-00
- native label
- Carneirinho
- Human Development Index
- 0.763
- postal code
- 38290-000 a 38294-999
- electorate
- 7633
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Carneirinho is a municipality in the westernmost tip of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Due to its location, it is the only municipality in Minas Gerais to border the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. the population was 10,066 in a total area of . It became a municipality in 1993.
==History== The town of Carneirinho was founded in 1954 by the Carneiro family, thus the origin of the name. The first settlement had begun on the Bom Sucesso cattle ranch in the late nineteenth century. In 1941 a general store opened on the banks of the Mutuca stream and houses were built nearby. The first church was built in 1952, consecrated to Our Lady Aparecida. In 1962 the district of Carneirinho was established and in 1992 it became a municipality.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Carneirinho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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