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Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
. Its population as of 2006 is estimated to be 7,947 people living in an altitude of 1,040 meters. The area of the municipality is 304.421 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Zona da Mata and to the microregion of Viçosa.