Vale do Aço
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| Surface: | 808 km² |
| Residents: | 449,340 (2008) |
| Population density: | 556.1 inhabitants / km² |
| Number of d. Municipalities: | 4 (28) |
| GDP (million R $ , 2005): | 6,825 |
| GDP per inhabitant: | 15,189 |
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The Vale do Aço ( Valley of Steel ) is a region in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais . It is an important center of the steel industry in South America and has the eleventh largest gross domestic product in Brazil. It covers an area of 808 km², on which 449,340 people lived in 2008 and generated a GDP of 6.8 real.
The region was created by the law Lei Complementar nº 51 of December 30, 1998 from the four municipalities of Coronel Fabriciano , Ipatinga , Santana do Paraíso and Timóteo . On January 12, 2006, she was raised to the Metropolitan Region Região Metropolitana do Vale do Aço . This metropolitan region also includes 24 municipalities of the metropolitan belt ( Colar metropolitano ), namely Açucena , Antônio Dias , Belo Oriente , Bom Jesus do Galho , Braúnas , Bugre , Caratinga , Córrego Novo , Dionísio , Dom Cavati , Entre Folhas , Iapu , Ipaba , Jaguaraçu , Joanésia , Marliéria , Mesquita , Naque , Periquito , Pingo-d'Água , São João do Oriente , São José do Goiabal , Sobrália and Vargem Alegre .
| local community | Area (km²) | Population (2010) | GDP (2005) | HDI (2000) |
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| Ipatinga | 166 | 224,636 | 4,422,997,000 | 0.806 |
| Coronel Fabriciano | 221 | 103.008 | 451,426,000 | 0.789 |
| Timóteo | 145 | 77,316 | 1,842,089,000 | 0.831 |
| Santana do Paraíso | 276 | 26,810 | 108,346,000 | 0.712 |
| total | 808 | 449.340 | 6,824,858,000 |
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The region is well served by the Estrada de Ferro Vitória a Minas railway line , on which several cities of the Vale do Aço are located, by trunk roads and the Ipatinga airport .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b IBGE Cidades . (PDF) Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), accessed May 30, 2010.
- ↑ Tabela 793 - População residente, em 1 ° de April 2007: Publicação Completa . Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática (SIDRA), November 14, 2007, accessed July 1, 2008
- ↑ Estimativas populacionais 2008 . (PDF; 306 kB) Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), August 28, 2008, accessed September 5, 2008
- ↑ a b c Produto Interno Bruto dos Municípios 2002-2005 . (PDF; 726 kB) Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), December 19, 2007, accessed June 1, 2008.
- ↑ Lei Complementar nº 51, de 30 dezembro de 1998 . (PDF) Sistema Integrado de Informação Ambiental, accessed May 30, 2010.
- ↑ ibge.gov.br (PDF; 40 kB)