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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 25,333 people living in an altitude between 682 and 1425 meters. The area of the municipality is 340.675 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Itabira.