Vespasiano

Município de Vespasiano "Vespá" Vespasiano
Former town hall, now the Casa da Cultura with two museums
Coordinates	19 ° 41 ′ 31 ″  S , 43 ° 55 ′ 24 ″  W Coordinates: 19 ° 41 ′ 31 ″  S , 43 ° 55 ′ 24 ″  W
Location and area outline of the municipality in the state of Minas Gerais
Symbols
coat of arms flag
founding	December 27, 1948 (Munizip)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Minas Gerais
Região intermediária	Belo Horizonte (since 2017)
Região imediata	Belo Horizonte (since 2017)
Metropolitan area	Belo Horizonte metropolitan area
structure	1 multiple district
height	693 m
Waters	Rio das Velhas
climate	tropical mountain climate, Aw
surface	71.1 km²
Residents	104,527 (2010)
density	1,470.6  Ew. / km²
estimate	127,601 Ew. (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 3171204
Post Code	33200-000 to 33349-999
Telephone code	(+55)  31
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	vespasiano.mg (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Ilce Alves Rocha Perdigáo (2017–2020)
Political party	PSDB
Culture
Patron saint	Our Lady of Lourdes
City festival	December 27th (city foundation)
economy
GDP	3,095,657  thousand R $ 26,111  R $ per capita (2015)
HDI	0.688, medium high (2010)

Vespasiano , officially Portuguese Município de Vespasiano , is a municipal town in the state of Minas Gerais , Brazil and is located in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte , about 15 km from Belo Horizonte-Confins International Airport . The population was estimated on July 1, 2019 at 127,601 inhabitants, who are called Vespasianenses ( vespasianenses ). The area of ​​the municipality amounts to around 71 km². The capital Belo Horizonte is 27 km away.

Toponymy

The place is named after the director of the Central Railway of Brazil ( Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil ), who later worked in Minas Gerais in 1894 , later Minister of War and Marshal Vespasiano Gonçalves de Albuquerque e Silva (1852-1924). There is a public bust of him in Vespasiano.

history

The first residents arrived in the area of ​​today's Vespasiano around 1738, at which time a military company had been stationed there. A few years later, in 1745, miners settled here to mine mineral resources. Fazendeira Mariana Joaquina da Costa is considered to be the founder of the city ; her Fazenda do Capão was in the core area. When the new capital of the state of Minas Gerais was built from 1897, the inauguration of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil played an important factor in the development of Vespasiano's economy and population. Food and limestone products were needed, which resulted in further internal migration from the eastern areas with the expansion of agriculture and industrial settlements. The development followed the course of the Ribeirão da Mata and the railway. In 1894 the settlement was named Vespasiano ( Vila de Vespasiano ).

On December 18, 1915, the Vespasiano District ( Distrito de Vespasiano ) was formed and initially belonged to the Munizip Santa Luzia do Rio das Velhas , later Santa Luzia , but became independent on December 27, 1948 and spun off from Santa Luzia.

This place had only 5610 inhabitants in 1950, of which 1944 in urban and 3666 in rural areas on an area of ​​around 121 km². From 1979 to 1992 the municipality consisted of the two districts Distrito de Vespasiano (seat) and the Distrito de São José da Lapa , which became the independent city of São José da Lapa .

Vespasiano has been part of the geostatistical Região geográfica imediata Belo Horizonte and the Região geográfica intermediária Belo Horizonte since 2017 .

Average income and standard of living

In 2016, the average monthly income was 2.7 times the Brazilian minimum wage ( Salário mínimo ) of R $ 880.00 (2016: around € 619). The Human Development Index (HDI) is rated as medium high at 0.688 for 2010. The gross national product per capita in 2015 was R $ 26,111.

Culture

The patron saint of the city is Our Lady of Lourdes .

sons and daughters of the town

• Éder Aleixo (born May 25, 1957 ), football player .

literature

• Mário Faraj: História de Vespasiano. Impr. Oficial, Belo Horizonte 1980.
• Vespasiano. In: Jurandyr Pires Ferreira (ed.): Enciclopédia dos Municípios Brasileiros . Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro 1959, Volume XXVII: Municípios do Estado de Minas Gerais, pp. 422-426. ( Digitized PDF; 85.2 MB).

Web links

Commons : Vespasiano  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
• City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vespasiano climate: average temperature, weather by month, Vespasiano weather averages. In: climate-data.org. de.climate-data.org, accessed on November 18, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Vespasiano - Panorama. Retrieved July 17, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
3. ↑ Ilce Rocha 45 (Prefeita). In: com.br. Eleições 2016, accessed November 18, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
4. ^ Carlos Pimentel Mendes: Novo Milênio. In: novomilenio.inf.br. www.novomilenio.inf.br, accessed November 18, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
5. ↑ Aqui é um bom lugar! Vespasiano. MG. In: Minas Gerais Railways. The best freight trains in Brazil. June 18, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
6. ↑ História. Prefeitura Municipal de Vespasiano, accessed November 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
7. ↑ Vespasiano. In: Jurandyr Pires Ferreira (ed.): Enciclopédia dos Municípios Brasileiros . Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística, Rio de Janeiro 1959, Volume XXVII: Municípios do Estado de Minas Gerais, pp. 422-426. ( Digitized PDF; 85.2 MB). Retrieved November 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
8. ↑ Vespasiano - História. In: cidades.ibge.gov.br. IBGE , accessed November 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese). 
9. ↑ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE): Divisão Regional do Brasil em Regiões Geográficas Imediatas e Regiões Geográficas Intermediárias 2017. In: ibge.gov.br. Retrieved November 17, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).