Piumhi, MG – Cidade para passear, morar e investir.

The NAECO Channel presents in this video the municipality of Piumhi, located in the Southwest of Minas Gerais, filmed on the ground in the streets, rural roads and access highways, panoramic flight with a drone, narrated, with details by map illustrating geographical references, population and economic resources. The Naeco Channel will post all 853 cities in Minas Gerais and we hope that the content of each post can serve as entertainment or help if you are looking for a place to visit, live or invest. Access to the city of Piumhi is via the MG 050 or MG 341 highway and the city is 260 km from the capital Belo Horizonte. João Batista Maciel was the first explorer of the captaincy of Minas to explore the region where the municipality of Piumhi is today. In 1731, he and his entourage, including enslaved children and dependents, discovered traces of gold in the Piuí River. They returned to Pitangui to form a large expedition to take possession of an area disputed between the captaincies of Minas Gerais and São Paulo and begin gold mining on the banks of the Cavalo stream, named after Our Lady of Livramento. The miners won the territorial dispute, but the gold was not found as expected by Batista Maciel, who was imprisoned for causing significant losses with that expedition. With the creation of the Picada de Goiás and the extermination of the quilombos (maroon settlements) in the region, in 1743 families began arriving with their land grants to colonize the area. In 1752, Father Marcos Freire de Carvalho, coming from Mariana, took possession of the Piumhi land grant, and from then on, evidence of the discovery of abundant gold in Piuí began to emerge, attracting many adventurers once again and forming the settlement where the farmer Manoel Marques de Carvalho founded the chapel of São Roque. In 1803, the settlement was elevated to a parish with the name Piui, subordinate to the municipality of Formiga. On July 20, 1868, it separated from Formiga to become the municipality of Piumhi. Today, in April 2024, the municipality of Piumhi has a population approaching 38,000 inhabitants, with a territorial area of ​​902.468 km², at an altitude of 793m, and is bathed by the Piumhi River and tributary streams that belonged to the Grande River basin, but were diverted to the São Francisco River basin due to water transfer. The municipalities that border the municipality of Piumhi are: Pimenta, Guapé, Capitólio, Vargem Bonita, São Roque de Minas, Bambuí, and Doresópolis. Until the completion of the Furnas dam on the Grande River, in southwestern Minas Gerais, the Piumhi River flowed into the Grande River, forming the Cururu swamp. The construction of the Furnas Hydroelectric Power Plant dam required spectacular engineering infrastructure at the time to minimize the impacts it could cause. The city of Capitólio, were it not for the construction of the 4-meter-high dike on Lake Furnas, would be greatly affected by the formation of the lake, which also required draining the Cururu swamp. With the construction of the Capitólio dike, the Piumhi River, which belonged to the Grande River basin, was transferred to the São Francisco River basin through diversion, requiring the construction of a 12 km canal. In the 1960s, Brazil was going through a serious energy crisis and needed to make this project viable at all costs. The economy of the municipality of Piumhi is based on agriculture, with emphasis on the production of coffee and milk for the manufacture of the famous Canastra cheeses, industry, services, commerce and tourism. The city boasts a good infrastructure of lodging and restaurants for visitors, with beautiful squares, wide and tree-lined streets, the Mirante da Cruz do Monte viewpoint, the Serra do Pimenta mountain range, access to the Serra da Canastra National Park, and also its popular festivals, exhibitions, fairs, and religious celebrations, making it a great place to visit, live, or invest in Piumhi. Become a member of this channel and get benefits:    / @naeco   Production: Naeco Digital Magazine https://www.naeco.com.br Music: Free Author: Humberto Furtado Contact: (31) 9 9899-9279 (WhatsApp) email: [email protected]