Lagoa da Prata

Município de Lagoa da Prata Lagoa da Prata
Lagoa da Prata
Coordinates	20 ° 1 ′  S , 45 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 20 ° 1 ′  S , 45 ° 33 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of Minas Gerais
Symbols
coat of arms
founding	December 27, 1938
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Minas Gerais
Região intermediária	Divinópolis (since 2017)
Região imediata	Divinópolis (since 2017)
Mesoregion	Central Mineira (1989 to 2017)
Microregion	Bom Despacho (1989 to 2017)
structure	2 districts, 26 bairros (urban)
height	650 m
climate	tropical, Aw
surface	440 km²
Residents	45,984 (2010)
density	104.5  Ew. / km²
estimate	51,601 (July 1, 2018)
Parish code	IBGE : 3137205
Post Code	35590-000
Telephone code	(+55)  (0) 37
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	lagoadaprata.mg.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Paulo Cezar Teodoro (Paulinho Despachante) (2017-2020)
Political party	PDT
economy
GDP	1,377,444  thousand R $ 27,161  R $ per capita (2016)
HDI	0.732 (2010)

Lagoa da Prata (German silver lagoon , officially Portuguese Município de Lagoa da Prata ) is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais .

Main road

geography

Serra da Canastra

Lagoa da Prata is west of Santo Antônio do Monte and southwest of Bom Despacho . The capital of the state of Belo Horizonte is a good 200 km away in the east. To the west of the city rises National Park Serra da Canastra , which since 1998 on the Tentative List for World Heritage is. From there, the Rio São Francisco rises to the north , while the Furnas reservoir dams the Rio Grande in the southwest .

In the middle of the local area is a small inland lake with the same name as the city , whose shimmering silver shine gave the place its name. To the north of the center is the elongated lake Lagoa Verde (German Green Lagoon ).

climate

The summers between October and March are hot and rainy, the winters between May and September are cold and dry. The city has a tropical climate, Aw according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The average temperature is 21.7 ° C. The average rainfall is 1355 mm per year.

history

The place was settled in 1789 by gold miners from the Rio São Francisco, established in 1896 as São Carlos do Pântano , in 1923 under its current name it became a district of Santo Antônio do Monte and on December 27, 1938 it was finally an independent city. Today it has around 51,600 inhabitants, more than twice as many as Santo Antônio do Monte and also more than Bom Despacho, which until 1912 was also the district of the now smaller Santo Antônio do Monte. Together with 11 other municipalities, it belonged to the statistical-geographical microregion Bom Despacho from 1989 to 2017 .

Demographics

It ranks 71st of the 853 cities of Minas Gerais. The inhabitants are called Lago-Pratenser (Portuguese lago-pratenses ). According to the 2010 IBGE census, the population was 45,984. The number was estimated by the IBGE as of July 1, 2018 at 51,601 residents. The area is given as around 440 km² (as of 2018). The population density in 2010 was around 105 inhabitants / km². They concentrate on the urban area of ​​the district of Lagoa da Prata with the capital of the same name, a second district is the district of Martins Guimarães .

Composition by ethnic group and distribution

group	Number 2000	Number 2010	annotation	Urban 2000	Rural 2000	Urban 2010	Rural 2010
Brancos	25.094	25.903	Whites, descendants of Europeans	24,451	644	25,301	602
Pardos (mixed race)	11,016	16,221	Mulattos , mestizos	10,828	188	15,838	383
Pretus	2,444	3,776	black	2,436	8th	3,716	60
Amarelos	18th	83	Asians	18th	0	83	0
Indigenous people	43	0	indigenous population	43	0	0	0
without specification	142	0		135	7th	0	0
total	38,758	45,984		37,911	847	44,938	1,046

Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE. Population composition source:

economy

Agriculturally, the region is surrounded by sugar cane plantations, and industrially by the Louis Dreyfus Group . In terms of tourism, the lagoon has received artificial beaches over the past 50 years. The place tries to promote ecotourism .

In 2017, the monthly average income was 2.2 times the Brazilian minimum wage ( Salário mínimo ) of R $ 880.00, which corresponds to a total of around 458 euros in 2019. The Human Development Index (HDI) is already rated high at 0.732 for 2010. The gross national product of economic output per capita in 2016 was R $ 27,161.

sons and daughters of the town

• Gilberto Silva (* 1976), football player (World Champion 2002)
• Núbia Soares (* 1996), athlete (South American champion 2017)

Web links

Commons : Lagoa da Prata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• Map of the municipal area 1: 50,000 (as of 2010)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lagoa da Prata - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed July 18, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
2. ^ Paulinho Despachante 12 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed July 18, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ Serra da Canastra National Park - UNESCO World Heritage Center. Retrieved July 17, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Climate data , accessed on July 18, 2019.
5. ↑ Query of the SIDRA database of the IBGE, Table 2093 for Lagoa da Prata .
6. ^ Website of the city prefecture . Retrieved July 18, 2019.