Itabira
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Coordinates: 19 ° 37 ′ S , 43 ° 14 ′ W Itabira on the map of Minas Gerais
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| Basic data | ||
| Country | Brazil | |
| State | Minas Gerais | |
| City foundation | 1833 | |
| Residents | 119,186 (2018 estimate) | |
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| Detailed data | ||
| surface | 1254.49 km² (of which 42 km² urban) | |
| Population density | 87.51 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Time zone | UTC −3 | |
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Itabira , officially Portuguese Município de Itabira , is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais . In 2010 it had about 110,000 inhabitants. Itabira is part of the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area .
The name Itabara comes from the Tupi language and stands for "shiny stone" ( Ita = stone; bira = that shines / shines).
religion
Itabira has been the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Itabira-Fabriciano since 1965 .
economy
There is a lot of iron ore mining going on around Itabira . The mining group Vale was founded in Itabira in 1942 and is still active in the region today. Itabira Agro Industrial and Itabira Special Steel Company are also based in Itabira.
sons and daughters of the town
- Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987), poet
- Marco Tulio Lopes Silva (* 1981), football player
- Ana Beatriz Barros (* 1982), model
- Cleidimar Magalhães Silva (* 1982), football player
- Diego Oliveira Alves (* 1987), football player
literature
- Itabira. In: Enciclopédia dos Municípios Brasileiros. Volume XXV, 1959. online
Web links
Commons : Itabira - collection of images, videos and audio files
- City Prefecture website (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- IBGE : Itabira - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved November 11, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). Updated statistics.
Individual evidence
- ↑ da Silva Oliveira, Diogo Jorge, de Moraes Pinto, Helder, Renata Pires Barbosa: Landscape and Environmental Education in Brazil: Impressions of students at the “Professora Didi Andrade” Municipal College - Itabira / Brazil . In: Field Actions Science Reports . Special Issue 3, 2011 ( revues.org ).
- ^ Carlos Manuel Pelaez: Itabira Iron and the Export of Brazil's Iron Ore . In: Revista Brasileira de Economia . tape 24 , no. 4 , 1970, pp. 157-174 ( fgv.br ).