Uberaba

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Município de Uberaba
"Capital Mundial do Zebu"
"Cidade das Sete Colinas"
Uberaba
Aerial photograph
Aerial photograph
Uberaba (Brazil)
Uberaba
Uberaba
Coordinates 19 ° 45 ′  S , 47 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 19 ° 45 ′  S , 47 ° 56 ′  W
Location of the municipality of Uberaba in the state of Minas Gerais
Location of the municipality of Uberaba in the state of Minas Gerais
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
flag
flag
Motto
"Indefesse per Brasilia"
tirelessly in defense of Brazil
founding February 22, 1836Template: Infobox location in Brazil / maintenance
Basic data
Country Brazil
State Minas Gerais
ISO 3166-2 BR-MG
Região intermediária Uberaba (since 2017)
Região imediata Uberaba (since 2017)
height 823 m
climate tropical mountain climate, Cwa
surface 4524 km²
Residents 295,988 (2010)
density 65.4  Ew. / km²
estimate 333,783 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code IBGE : 3170107
Post Code 38000-000 to 38107-999
Time zone UTC −3
Website www.uberaba.mg.gov.br (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect Paulo Piau (2017-2020)
Political party MDB
Culture
Patron saint Nossa Senhora da Abadia
economy
GDP 13,453,594  thousand R $
41,360 R $ per person 
(2016)
HDI 0.772 (2010)

Uberaba , officially Portuguese Município de Uberaba , is a city in the mining triangle Triângulo Mineiro in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais . The population was 2010 295.988 inhabitants according to the census, the population was estimated at 1 July 2019 333 783 residents who live in a community km² area of about 4524 and Uberabenser ( uberabenses ) are called. The distance to the capital Belo Horizonte is 481 km. She is known u. a. because of the breeding of bright zebu cattle and fossils from the Cretaceous period.

It ranks eighth of the state's 853 parishes. The name of the city comes from the Tupi language and means "crystal clear water".

history

The municipality was originally the settlement area of ​​the Tupis Indian tribes , then the Tremembés , the Kayapos and the Araxás . They became victims of the Bandeirantes . The core cell of the place was founded in 1809 by the major Antônio Eustáquio da Silva e Oliveira (1796-1832). In 1836 it was promoted to city.

geography

Surrounding places are in Minas Gerais Água Comprida , Conceição das Alagoas , Uberlândia , Veríssimo , Indianópolis , Nova Ponte , Sacramento , Conquista and Delta ; in the state of São Paulo are Igarapava , Aramina and Miguelópolis .

The city is located at an altitude of 823 meters in the “mining triangle” rich in natural resources. The biome is the cerrado .

climate

The city has a subtropical mountain climate Cwa according to the climate classification by Köppen and Geiger . The average temperature is 22.3 ° C. The average rainfall is 1571 mm per year.

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Uberaba
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Temperature ( ° C ) 24.0 24.1 22.7 21.2 19.6 19.2 20.7 22.4 23.4 23.6 23.6 22.6 O 22.3
Precipitation ( mm ) 268 225 190 96 46 20th 17th 14th 57 156 204 278 Σ 1571

City administration

Since the local elections in Brazil in 2016, the executive has been exercised by the former state and federal MP Paulo Piau of the Movimento Democrático Brasileiro (MDB) for the 2017 to 2020 term. The legislature lies with a city council ( câmara municipal ) made up of 13 elected representatives ( vereadores ).

Standard of living

The human development index for cities, abbreviated HDI (Portuguese: IDH-M ), was at the low value of 0.574 in 1991, at the medium-high value of 0.692 in 2000, and at the high value of 0.772 in 2010. The gross national product per capita in 2016 was R $ 41,360. In 2017, the average monthly income was 2.6 times the minimum income of R $ 880, or around 455 euros per month in 2019.

Ethnic composition

Ethnic groups according to the statistical classification of the IBGE (status 2010 with 295,988 inhabitants): Of these, around 289,378 inhabitants lived in urban areas in 2010, which covers around 137 km², and around 8812 in rural areas.

group Share (2010) annotation
Brancos 000000000182911.0000000000182.911 Whites, descendants of Europeans
Pardos 000000000083643.000000000083,643 Mixed races, mulattos , mestizos
Pretus 000000000026546.000000000026,546 black
Amarelos 000000000002489.00000000002,489 Asians
Indigenous people 000000000000398.0000000000398 indigenous population
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religion

“Wonderful medal sanctuary” in Uberaba

According to the 2010 census, the majority is Roman Catholic (180,097), 46,063 were spiritualists , 37,911 were Protestants, 21,113 belonged to a Pentecostal movement, and 95 stated that they were Jewish.

Since 1907 the city has been the seat of a Roman Catholic diocese , which was elevated to the Archdiocese of Uberaba in 1962 . The veneration of Mary is pronounced, she is city saint and is u. a. venerated in the "Miraculous Medal Shrine" (Santuário da Medalha Milagrosa).

Culture, sights

The museum house of the spiritualist medium Chico Xavier, popular in Brazil, attracts many visitors. There is a museum for decorative arts (MADA), a zebra cattle museum, a museum for sacred art, a municipal market hall, the sanctuary of Our Lady of the Abbey (Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Abadia) and a dinosaur museum (Museu dos Dinossauros). Uberaba is the seat of a literary academy.

  • Church of São Domingo

  • Santuário de Nossa Senhora da Abadia

  • Municipal market hall

  • Replica of a Titanosaurus in the Peirópolis Dinosaur Museum

Fossil finds

Uberabasuchus terrificus in the Peirópolis Dinosaur Museum

The fossil Uberabasuchus terrificus ("Terrible Crocodile of Uberaba") found there is named after Uberaba from the family of the Crocodylomorpha , which lived in Brazil about 70 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period, particularly in the state of Minas Gerais.

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Former station of the Mogiana de Estradas de Ferro railway company on the outskirts of Peirópolis , now the seat of the Dinosaur Museum and part of the Llewelyn Ivor Price Paleontological Research Center in Uberaba.

Infrastructure

Uberaba Airport (Aeroporto de Uberaba Mário de Almeida Franco) is about 3.5 km from the city center . Access roads are the federal roads BR-262 , connects with Campo Florido, Araxá, Belo Horizonte, the BR-050 , connects with Brasília, Uberlândia, São Paulo, the BR-464 from Conquista as well as the state roads MG-190 to Sacramento and Monte Carmelo and the MG-427 , connects with Conceição das Alagoas and Nova Ponte.

economy

Uberaba is the headquarters of Vale Fertilizantes , the largest fertilizer manufacturer in Brazil.

Sports

The Estádio Municipal Engenheiro João Guido football stadium, inaugurated in 1972, has space for 21,300 spectators and is the venue of the Uberaba Sport Club .

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • A Igreja em Uberaba. Fundação Cultural de Uberaba, Uberaba 1987.
  • Orlando Ferreira: Terra Madrasta. Tipografia do Brasil Central, Uberaba, 1928.
  • Hildebrando de Araújo Pontes: Vida, Casos, Perfis. Arquivo Público Mineiro, 1992.
  • Hildebrando de Araújo Pontes: História de Uberaba ea civilização do Brasil Central. Uberaba 1970 ( digitized version )
  • José Felício Buarque de Macedo: A Verdade Histórico Jurídica a propósito das alegações finais sobre a Fábrica da Matriz de Uberaba. Escolas Profissionais Salesianianas, São Paulo 1912.
  • Jorge Alberto Nabut (Ed.): Desemboque Documentário Histórico e Cultural. Uberaba 1986.
  • Antônio Borges Sampaio: Uberaba; História Fatos e Homens. Editora A. LT Mineiro, Uberaba 1971. ( digitized version ).
  • Antonio José Silva: Uberaba - historia topographica da Freguezia do Uberaba vulgo Farinha Podre. In: Revista do Arquivo Público Mineiro Volume 1, 1896, Issue 2, pp. 339–346.
  • Iná Souza: Fragmentos - Crônicas de Uberaba. Editora Imprensa Oficial de Minas Gerais, 1958.
  • Uberaba Revisitada. 1820-2000. Superintendência do Arquivo Público de Uberaba, Uberaba [without year]. Extensive illustrated book ( digitized ).

Web links

Commons : Uberaba  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Uberaba - Panorama. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed October 28, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ^ Significado do nome Uberaba. In: com.br. Dicionário de Nomes Próprios, accessed August 17, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Tarcísio José Martins: Araxás os Índios Araxás do Triângulo Existiram? In: www.mgquilombo.com.br. MG Quilombo, 2008, accessed August 17, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ↑ Hildebrando de Araújo Pontes: A Família Silva e Oliveira. Uberaba, 1944.
  5. ^ Marta Zednik de Casanova: Breve trajetória de Uberaba - 193 anos. In: blogspot.com. Superintendência do Arquivo de Uberaba, March 5, 2013, accessed August 17, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Climate data , accessed on August 17, 2019.
  7. ↑ Paulo Piau 15 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed August 17, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  8. ↑ Vereadores. In: gov.br. Câmara Municipal de Uberaba, accessed August 17, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  9. ^ Atlas do desenvolvimento humano no Brasil - Uberaba, MG . Retrieved August 17, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  10. ↑ IBGE : Sistema IBGE de Recuperação Automática - SIDRA: Tabela 2093. Retrieved on August 17, 2019 (Portuguese, database query, search terms Barbalha (CE) and Cor ou raça).
  11. ↑ Uberaba - Amostra - Religião. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed August 18, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).