Pompéu

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Field	Value
name	Pompéu
subdivision_name2	Minas Gerais
image_caption	Aerial View from downtown Pompéu (2012)
image_skyline	Pompéu-MG, 2012.jpg
utc_offset	−3
timezone1	BRT
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_type1	Region
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name1	Southeast
population_total	32,035
subdivision_name
settlement_type	Municipality
website	Pompéu,MG
area_total_km2	2551.07
area_code	(+55) 37
population_density_km2	11,41
population_as_of	2020 (estimated)
population_demonym	Pompeano
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Pompéu is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020 the population was 32,035 in a total area of 2,557 km2. It became a municipality in 1938.

Geography

Pompéu belongs to the statistical micro-region of Três Marias. The municipal seat is located at an elevation of 657 meters between the Pará River and the São Francisco River. Neighboring municipalities are Felixlândia (N), Abaeté (W), Martinho Campos, Papagaios, and Pitangui (S), and Curvelo (E).

Distances

Angueretá on BR-040: 44 km
Martinho Campos: 20 km
Belo Horizonte: 181 km
Brasília: 650 km Connections to the north and south are made on MG-415.

Climate

The average yearly temperature is 22.1 °C; the average yearly maximum is 29.2 °C; and the average yearly minimum is 16,4 °C.

|metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Pompéu (1981–2010) |Jan high C = 30.3 |Feb high C = 31.1 |Mar high C = 30.6 |Apr high C = 30.0 |May high C = 28.0 |Jun high C = 27.3 |Jul high C = 27.6 |Aug high C = 29.2 |Sep high C = 30.9 |Oct high C = 31.6 |Nov high C = 30.2 |Dec high C = 29.7 | year high C = 29.7 |Jan mean C = 24.3 |Feb mean C = 24.7 |Mar mean C = 24.1 |Apr mean C = 23.2 |May mean C = 20.6 |Jun mean C = 19.3 |Jul mean C = 19.4 |Aug mean C = 21.2 |Sep mean C = 23.2 |Oct mean C = 24.7 |Nov mean C = 24.2 |Dec mean C = 24.0 | year mean C = 22.7 |Jan low C = 19.9 |Feb low C = 19.6 |Mar low C = 19.2 |Apr low C = 17.5 |May low C = 14.4 |Jun low C = 12.4 |Jul low C = 12.3 |Aug low C = 13.9 |Sep low C = 16.4 |Oct low C = 18.8 |Nov low C = 19.5 |Dec low C = 19.8 | year low C = 17.0 |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 250.3 |Feb precipitation mm = 156.2 |Mar precipitation mm = 167.8 |Apr precipitation mm = 49.3 |May precipitation mm = 27.2 |Jun precipitation mm = 8.0 |Jul precipitation mm = 7.4 |Aug precipitation mm = 12.7 |Sep precipitation mm = 30.2 |Oct precipitation mm = 63.7 |Nov precipitation mm = 190.2 |Dec precipitation mm = 276.3 |year precipitation mm = 1239.3 | unit precipitation days = 1.0 mm | Jan precipitation days = 15 | Feb precipitation days = 11 | Mar precipitation days = 11 | Apr precipitation days = 5 | May precipitation days = 3 | Jun precipitation days = 1 | Jul precipitation days = 1 | Aug precipitation days = 2 | Sep precipitation days = 4 | Oct precipitation days = 7 | Nov precipitation days = 13 | Dec precipitation days = 16 | year precipitation days = | Jan humidity = 75.1 | Feb humidity = 73.7 | Mar humidity = 75 | Apr humidity = 71.4 | May humidity = 71.1 | Jun humidity = 66.1 | Jul humidity = 62.8 | Aug humidity = 56.9 | Sep humidity = 57.1 | Oct humidity = 59.8 | Nov humidity = 71.6 | Dec humidity = 77.8 | year humidity = 68.2 |Jan sun = 176.5 |Feb sun = 186.0 |Mar sun = 203.1 |Apr sun = 226.0 |May sun = 222.5 |Jun sun = 204.4 |Jul sun = 228.5 |Aug sun = 226.1 |Sep sun = 203.8 |Oct sun = 203.5 |Nov sun = 164.6 |Dec sun = 164.7 |year sun = 2409.7 |source 1 = Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia{{cite web | url = http://www.inmet.gov.br/portal/index.php?r=clima/normaisclimatologicas | title = Normais Climatológicas Do Brasil 1981–2010 | publisher = Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia | language = Portuguese | accessdate = 21 May 2024}}

Economic activities

The most important economic activities are cattle raising, alcohol production, mining of slate, furniture, clothing, and food and drink manufacture, forestry for production of charcoal, and agriculture. The GDP in 2005 was R$ R$223 million of which 97 million came from services, 37 million from industry, and 74 million from agriculture. Pompéu is in the middle tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. As of 2007 there were 02 banking agencies in the town. There was a small retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. There were 2,591 automobiles in all of the municipality (2007), about one for every 11 inhabitants.

Working population by economic sector

Agriculture, charcoal extraction, and fishing: 2,788
Industry: 2,913
Commerce and Merchandise: 1,649
Services: 3,754
TOTAL: 11,104

In the rural area there were 732 establishments occupying 142,000 hectares (planted area, 18,000 ha; natural pasture, 82,000 ha.; and woodland, 47,000 ha.) (2006). About 2,600 persons were employed in agriculture. 214 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one in three farms. There were 88,000 head of cattle in 2006, of which 28,000 were milking cows. The main crops were sugarcane and corn. A major agricultural activity is extraction of charcoal, which is shipped by truck to be used in the industries of the Belo Horizonte region.

Health and education

In the health sector there were 15 health clinics and 01 hospital with 33 beds. In the educational sector there were 12 pre-primary schools, 21 primary schools, and 04 middle schools.

Municipal Human Development Index: 0.746 (2000)
State ranking: 319 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000
National ranking: 2,006 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000
Literacy rate: 85%
Life expectancy: 70 (average of males and females)

The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was Poços de Caldas with 0.841, while the lowest was Setubinha with 0.568. Nationally the highest was São Caetano do Sul in São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha. In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of Pernambuco has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.

History

Pompéu is the birthplace of Dona Joaquina de Pompéu (Joaquina Maria Bernarda da Silva de Abreu Castelo Branco Souto Mayor de Oliveira Campos), historical figure and matriarch of all the west of Minas Gerais. The town began with Pouso dos Buritis, a resting place for the muleteers who travelled from Montes Claros to the Northeast of Minas Gerais.

Pompéu only became an official settlement in 1840 with the name Buriti da Estrada. In 1938 it became a city with the name of Pompéu, paying homage to its first inhabitant, Antônio Pompeu Taques.

References

[https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/mg/pompeu/panorama IBGE 2020]
[http://www.citybrazil.com.br/mg/regioes/tresmarias/ Citybrazil] {{webarchive. link. (2008-03-23)
[http://www.der.mg.gov.br/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=179 DER MG]
{{usurped
link. (2011-07-06)
[https://www.ibge.gov.br/cidadesat/default.php IBGE]
[http://www.moradanova.mg.gov.br/ Prefeitura de Morada Nova de Minas]
[http://www.frigoletto.com.br/GeoEcon/idhmg.htm Frigoletto]

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