Montes Claros
Montes Claros is a Brazilian municipality located in the northern region of the state of Minas Gerais.
Situated north of the state capital, Belo Horizonte, it lies approximately 422 km (262 mi) away. The municipality spans an area of 3,589.811 km2 (1,386.034 sq mi), with 73.51 km2 (28.38 sq mi) within its urban area. As of the 2022 census, its population was 414,240, making it the fifth most populous municipality in Minas Gerais.
Getting to Montes Claros
Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC IATA) (6 km from downtown Montes Claros). Daily flights from Belo Horizonte, Sao Paulo–Guarulhos, Brasilia, and Salvador.
Worth seeing
Montes Claros has innumerous caves and 164 catalogued archaeological sites, among which the most important are the caves of Lapa Grande, where there is an underground river with a length of more than 1km. Lapa Grande is in the Serra da Vieira, 12 km (7.5 mi) from Montes Claros. Igreja dos Morrinhos. Vieira River
Things to do
In the city there are several large parks, among which the most important are Parque Municipal Milton Prates, with a lake and zoo. In the rural area there is Parque Sapucaia, a forest reserve and Parque Guimarães Rosa along the banks of the Córrego Carrapato. August Festival Pequi Festival - Celebrating the pequi, a small pulpy fruit popular only in central Brasil.
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