Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais

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...

. The city belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Conceição do Mato Dentro.

Historic

The birth of a town, with its accumulations of houses occupying a caused an accident space enters the edges of an auriferous river and the hillsides of small mounts, thus appeared Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo. The expedition that established Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo composed in Portuguese bandeirantes of the families: Quintão, Duarte, Alvarenga, Oliveira and Bittencourt. The bandeirantes had initiated the gold mining in lands of Farm Morro Grande, constructing, to the right edge of a river, a chapel for Santo Antônio and also its neighbor, forming, thus, a small town. For having been constructed following chains of waters, it below received the denomination from Saint Antonio of the River. Later, it was raised the category of village and became Inside district of Conceição do Mato Dentro, in 4 of January 1875. Ones of the great benefactors of the community had been Major Quintão and Silvestre da Costa Lage. It was emancipated in 1º of March 1963.

Foundation

In 1695, the bandeirante Borba Gato discovers gold in Sabará. After that, Borba Gato explores the Santo Antônio River, in the Chains city, where it fixes residence (town Borba Gato). With it, other tamers had come and had been finding in abundance, the gold alluvium, in the Santo Antônio River, fix residences in its right edge, giving to origin to the arrayal Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo. No longer year 1787, with a population settled to the edge of the Santo Antônio River, esteem for top of 400 people, José Ferreira Santiago, it was directed the king asking for license to raise a chapel that served for it and its neighbors. Its order he was accepted in 10 of March of 1788.

Emancipation

The creation of the city of Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo was given in day 30 of December 1962. The installation of the same gave in the day 1º of March 1963. In 30 of June, it had the first elections for mayor, vice-mayor and for the councilmen of the City council, being installed in day 3 of September 1963.

Geography

Situated in the basin of Doce River

Doce River

The Doce River is a river in southeast Brazil, which has an extension of 853 km.It is formed by the junction of the Piranga and the Carmo near the historical city of Ouro Preto, whose sources are located in the foothills of the Mantiqueira and Espinhaço mountain chains at altitudes of about 1,200...

, Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo is the 190 km of Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...

, for MG-010, Br-381 and BR-120. Situated between mount

Mountain

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s and mountain range

Mountain range

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 is typical and small city

City

A city is a relatively large and permanent settlement. Although there is no agreement on how a city is distinguished from a town within general English language meanings, many cities have a particular administrative, legal, or historical status based on local law.For example, in the U.S...

 of the interior of Minas Gerais

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...

. The more high point of the city is Mount Crystal

Mount Crystal

Mount Crystal is the highest mountain of the Crystal Mountains, in Minas Gerais in Brazil....

, with 2425 m of altitude. Santo Antônio River is one of the main rivers of the city, also is found Peixe River and Preto River of the Itambé.

Administration

• Mayor
  Mayor
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  : Rilton Carlos de Alvarenda
• Vice-mayor: Jairo Duarte de Azevedo
• Speaker of the house: Flávia Bárbara Faria Duarte.

Public parks

Avenues

Avenue (landscape)

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• Avenue Manuel Oliveira Santos
• Avenue Valdir Alvarenga Quintão

Squares

Town square

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• Square Alcino Quintão
• Square Joaquim Coelho de Sousa

Street

Street

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• Street Nelson Edson Porto
• Street Horácio Bittencourt
• Street Major Quintão
• Street Silvestre da Costa Lage
• Street Mestra Josefina Augusta dos Santos
• Street Joaquim Duarte Neto
• Street Joaquim Pereira Chaves
• Street João Paulo de Andrade
• Street Damaso de Azevedo
• Street José Camilo Rodrigues
• Street Antônio de Oliveira Quintão
• Street Dácio de Oliveira Quintão
• Street Bento Oliveira de Araújo
• Street José de Sousa Gomes

Tourism

Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo possesses some attractive tourist ones:

Waterfalls

• Crystal Falls
  Crystal Falls (Brazil)
  Crystal Falls is a waterfall in the Crystal Mountains of Brazil. It is located in the city of Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo in the state of Minas Gerais. It is approximately high....
  
  
• Chuvisco Falls
• Bahia Falls
  Bahia Falls
  Bahia Falls is a waterfall on the Santo Antônio River, in city of Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo, in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It has about of height....
  
  
• Angico Falls
• Martins Leite Falls
• Limão Falls
• Ribeirão Falls
• Domingo Falls

Fluvial beaches

• Balneal Benedito Martins Leite
• Beach of Tabuleiro
• Beach of Vieiras

Country properties

• Farm Barra dos Menezes
• Farm of Bambus
• Farm of Maracujá
• Farm Morro Grande
• Farm of Engenho
• Farm of Pintas
• Farm of Chapada
• Farm of Fonseca
• Farm Engenho Velho
• Farm São Geraldo
• Farm of Claras

Smallholding

Smallholding

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• Smallholding Córrego of Lages
• Smallholding Bahia
• Smallholding Córrego of Chaves
• Smallholding Paraguay
• Smallholding Morro Grande
• Smallholding Barra dos Menezes
• Smallholding of Quilombo

See also

• List of municipalities in Minas Gerais

External linkings

• Official page
• Page of the City Hall