Itajubá
| Município de Itajubá Itajubá |
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| Coordinates | 22 ° 26 ′ S , 45 ° 27 ′ W | ||
 Location of Itajubá in the state of Minas Gerais
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Motto "Revelemo-nos mais por que por palavras atos" Let us be more by deeds than by words |
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| founding | March 19, 1819 | ||
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Minas Gerais | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-MG | ||
| Região intermediária | Pouso Alegre (since 2017) | ||
| Região imediata | Itajubá (since 2017) | ||
| structure | 2 districts: Distrito de Itajubá , Distrito de Lourenço Velho | ||
| height | 856 m | ||
| climate | Cwa, tropical mountain climate | ||
| surface | 294.8 km² | ||
| Residents | 90,658 (2010) | ||
| density | 307.5 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 96,869 Ew. (July 1, 2019) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 3132404 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | itajuba.mg (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | Rodrigo Imar Martinez Riera (2017-2020) | ||
| Political party | Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB, today MDB) | ||
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| Patron saint | Mater Dolorosa | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 2,644,484 thousand R $ 27,397 R $ per person (2016) |
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| HDI | 0.787 (2010) | ||
 View of the UNIFEI campus in Itajubá
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Itajubá , officially Portuguese Município de Itajubá , is a Brazilian city in the south of Minas Gerais . The city had an estimated 96,869 inhabitants in 2019, who are called Itajubenses ( itajubenses ) and live on an area of around 295 km². It is 445 km from the capital, Belo Horizonte .
General
Surrounding places are São José do Alegre , Maria da Fé , Wenceslau Braz , Piranguçu , Delfim Moreira and Piranguinho , the capital of Pé-de-Moleque .
Itajubá is shaped by the Federal University of Applied Sciences Universidade Federal de Itajubá (UNIFEI). In the surrounding area there are many mountains of the Serra da Mantiqueira , which regularly attract hikers, as well as an observatory. The city coat of arms symbolically shows a crossing point between the megacities of Belo Horizonte in the north, Rio de Janeiro in the southeast and São Paulo in the southwest.
In addition to the development of today's center around the founding church and the many typical one-story houses, high-rise buildings have also been built in recent years. The Tecnópolis Center was also created for newly founded companies. Companies in the fields of electrical engineering, helicopter construction and steel construction are located in the city.
In 2017, the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística changed the assignment to geostatistical regions and assigned the municipality to the Região geográfica imediata Itajubá and the Região geográfica intermediária Pouso Alegre .
history
The city was founded in 1819 by Padre Lourenço da Costa Moreira as Vila de Boa Vista . A hotel is still named after the Coroados Indians who lived there at the time . The name Itajubá comes from the Tupí language , in the original form itaîuba , translated from the height of the falling river of stones (waterfall).
City administration
Executive: After the local elections in 2016, Rodrigo Imar Martinez Riera des Partido do Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (PMDB, today MDB ) is the city prefect (mayor) for the term 2017 to 2020. The legislature rests with a city council, the Câmara Municipal, made up of 17 elected city councilors ( vereadores).
Community structure
Itajubá is divided into two districts: Distrito de Itajubá as the seat (215.35 km²) and since 1948 in the Distrito de Lourenço Velho (79.85 km²).
population
According to the 2010 IBGE census, the population was 90,658. The number was estimated by the IBGE as of July 1, 2019 at 96,869 residents. In 2010 it was distributed to 82,764 people in the populated area and to 7,894 people in the extensive surrounding area of the municipality.
The population of Itabuba is largely white as a result of the heavy Portuguese and Italian migration between the 19th and 20th centuries. There is also a large presence of Syrian Lebanese nationals in the city in a recent migration process.
Population development
| Population development of Itajubá | |
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| year | Residents |
| 1991 | 75.014 |
| 2000 | 84,135 |
| 2010 | 90,679 |
| 2019 | 96,869 |
Ethnic composition
Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (status 2010 with 84,135 inhabitants):
| group | proportion of | annotation |
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| Pardos (mixed race) | 16,745 (18.47%) | ( Mulatto , mestizo ) |
| Pretus | 4,330 (4.77%) | ( Blacks ) |
| Brancos | 69,208 (76.33%) | (Whites, descendants of Europeans ) |
| Amarelos | 334 (0.36%) | (Asians) |
| Indigenous people | 41 (0.04%) | (indigenous population) |
climate
The city has a tropical mountain climate (Cwa) according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification. The average temperature is 19.5 ° C. The average rainfall is 1548 mm per year. The summer in Itajubá is much more humid than the winter.
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Itajubá
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |||
| Temperature ( ° C ) | 22.2 | 22.3 | 21.6 | 19.8 | 17.3 | 15.9 | 15.5 | 17.3 | 19th | 20.4 | 21st | 21.4 | O | 19.5 |
| Precipitation ( mm ) | 261 | 242 | 175 | 72 | 44 | 33 | 23 | 34 | 71 | 135 | 180 | 278 | Σ | 1548 |
sons and daughters of the town
- Ricardo Galvão (* 1947), physicist
- Edson José Oriolo dos Santos (* 1964), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Leopoldina
Web links
- City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municial (Brazilian Portuguese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Itajubá - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed October 30, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2015. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed October 30, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Divisão Regional do Brasil. 2017, accessed May 15, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Itajubá: História. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved May 15, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ Rodrigo Riera 15 (Prefeito). In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed May 15, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ Fundação João Pinheiro, Governo de Minas Gerais (ed.): Relação de 1727 Distritos de Minas Gerais, sendo 853 Distritos Sedes Municipais. Junho de 2017 . Belo Horizonte 2017, p. 67 (Brazilian Portuguese, gov.br [PDF; 558 kB ; accessed on May 15, 2018]).
- ↑ Tabela 3175: População resident, por cor ou raça, segundo a situação do DOMICILIO, o sexo ea idade. In: www.sidra.ibge.gov.br. Retrieved May 15, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). Search term: cor ou raça.
- ↑ Climate data , accessed on May 15, 2018.