Conceição da Barra de Minas
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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...
. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Campo das Vertentes and to the microregion of Sao Joao del Rei.
The history most concrete of this city retraces to century XVIII, when the small Arraial of Ours Lady of the Conceição of the Bar was only one point of ticket of travellers come of the region of São Paulo in direction Is Sao Joao del Rei and also to other parts. In 1825, the arraial was raised to the clientele condition and in 1943, it had its name modified for Cassiterita (on name the extration of cassiterita, very common in that region). In 1962, the clientele was raised to the category of city.