Grupiara
Sign in to savethumb|right|250px|Location of Grupiara in the state of Minas Gerais Grupiara is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 1,387 people living in a total area of . The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba and to the microregion of Patrocínio. It became a municipality in 1962.
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thumb|right|250px|Location of Grupiara in the state of Minas Gerais Grupiara is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 1,387 people living in a total area of . The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba and to the microregion of Patrocínio. It became a municipality in 1962.
==Geography== The municipality is located in the region of the Alto Paranaíba, on the edge of the Emborcação Reservoir, which dams up the Paranaíba River. More than half of the municipal territory is covered by water seriously limiting agricultural production. The elevation of the town center is 713 meters. Highway connections are made by local road to MG-223, which connects to BR-050 north of Araguari. Neighboring municipalities are: Catalão (N), Douradoquara (E) Monte Carmelo and Estrela do Sul(S), and Catalão (W).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Grupiara” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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