Itabirito
| Município de Itabirito Itabirito |
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.jpg) Pico do Itabirito, symbol of the city
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| Coordinates | 20 ° 15 ′ S , 43 ° 48 ′ W | ||
 Location of the municipality in Minas Gerais
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Motto "Cidade Ativa" Active City |
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| founding | 7th September 1923 (age 96) | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Minas Gerais | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-MG | ||
| Região intermediária | Belo Horizonte (since 2017) | ||
| Região imediata | Santa Bárbara-Ouro Preto (since 2017) | ||
| Metropolitan area | Urban belt around the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte | ||
| height | 823 m | ||
| climate | tropical mountain climate | ||
| surface | 542.6 km² | ||
| Residents | 45,449 (2010) | ||
| density | 83.8 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 51,875 (July 1, 2019) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 3131901 | ||
| Post Code | 35450-000 to 35459-999 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
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| City Prefect | Alexander Silva Salvador de Oliveira (2017-2020) | ||
| Political party | Psd | ||
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| Patron saint | Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 2,660,343 thousand R $ 52,884 R $ per person (2016) |
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| HDI | 0.730 (2010) | ||
 Iron ore transport at Itabirito
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Itabirito , officially Município de Itabirito , is a city in the state of Minas Gerais , Brazil . It is located approx. 320 km north of Rio de Janeiro and 57 km south of the capital Belo Horizonte in the Serra de Itabirito region . It is affected by the BR-356 federal highway .
According to the 2010 census, the middle town has 45,449 inhabitants, who are called Itabiritenser. According to the IBGE's estimate of July 1, 2019, the population was calculated to grow to 51,875 residents. The area is 542.609 km²; the population density in 2010 was 84 people per km².
Geography, geology
About 10 kilometers west of the city is the 1,586 m high mountain Pico de Itabirito , which consists entirely of iron ore, mainly hematite , and because of its color is regionally known as "pedra sangue" (blood stone). It has a striking truncated cone shape. The long-term iron ore mining in the area of Itabirito is known worldwide because of its large deposits from the Precambrian ( Minas Supergroup , Cauê Formation). The wider region is therefore also called the Iron Square ( Portuguese Quadrilátero Ferrífero ) because it is bordered by four cities.
An open-cast mine extends up to the striking rock massif of Pico de Itabirito. The Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional declared the mountain a National Natural Monument in 1926, the status of which was maintained until 1965. The protection area was withdrawn because of the expanding mining area. In order to preserve it, the core area of the mountain was again placed under protection in 1991, this time by means of a statutory ordinance at the municipal level.
The German geologist Wilhelm Ludwig von Eschwege visited this iron ore deposit in Brazil between 1810 and 1821 during his exploration work and noted the rock found as itabirite in his work Geognostic Painting of Brazil and Probable Mother Rock of the Diamonds , published in 1822 .
history
The settlement history begins at the end of the 17th century after the first gold discoveries. In 1709 the first permanent settlements were built in the region around the Pico de Itaubyra, today the Pico de Itabirito. The increase in population led to the establishment of the Freguesia Itabira do Campo in 1745 . The area kept this name until city rights were granted on September 7, 1923 and the place was renamed Itabirito , a word from the Tupí-Guaraní languages .
City administration
After the municipal elections in Brazil in 2016, the re-elected Alexander Silva Salvador de Oliveira is the city prefect (executive) for the term of office 2017 to 2020, the legislature lies with the Câmara Municipal, the city council or the city council.
Attractions
- Pico de Itabirito natural monument
- Museum of Art and Crafts (Museu de Arte e Ofício)
- Iron ore museum (Museu do Ferro)
- Monument to iron ore mining with a light rail locomotive and tipping truck
sons and daughters of the town
- Telê Santana (1931–2006), Brazilian soccer player and coach
literature
- Carlos Alberto Rosière: Structural and textural investigations in the iron ore deposit "Pico de Itabira" near Itabirito / Minas Gerais, Brazil (= Clausthal geoscientific dissertations, No. 9), Clausthal 1981
Web links
- Website of the Prefeitura Municipal de Itabirito
- Citizens Portal of the City Prefecture , Prefeitura Municipal
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal
- Portal da Cidade de Itabirito
- Site AgitoMais - Portal completo sobre Itabirito
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Itabirito - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed July 31, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Terras Altas da Minas, brief description of the Serra de Itabirito ( Memento of February 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese)
- ^ Carlos Alberto Rosière et al .: Itabira Peak, State of Minas Gerais. Geographic, historical and structural landmark of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero . In: Sítios Geológicos e Paleontológicos do Brasil (SIGEP) 042, 2005 ( Memento from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ^ Karl Caesar von Leonhard: Characteristics of the rock types. First division, dissimilar rocks . Heidelberg 1823, p. 202
- ↑ Prefeitura Itabirito: Nossa Cidadae - História. ( Memento of October 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved September 4, 2014 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Alex Salvador 55 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed July 31, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Itabirito website, Patrimônios Tombados (Portuguese)
- ↑ Itabirito website, entry on the museum (Portuguese)
- ↑ Illustration of the monument