Sete Lagoas
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About Sete Lagoas
Sete Lagoas (meaning 'Seven Lagoons' in Portuguese) is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The municipal area is 537 km2 while the population was 238,909 in 2025.
Sete Lagoas is situated about 70 kilometres from Belo Horizonte, the capital of Minas Gerais. The BR 040 motorway connects Sete Lagoas with Belo Horizonte and the national capital Brasília. The altitude is 761 metres above sea level. It is surrounded by the following municipalities:
Araçaí, Funilândia, Prudente de Morais, Capim Branco, Esmeraldas, Inhaúma, Paraopeba, and Caetanópolis.
According to data from the meteorological station of the municipality, the average temperature of the city between the years 1961 to 1990 was 20.9 °C.
The coldest month (July) had an average of 17.5 °C while the hottest month (February) had an average of 23.0 °C.
The four lowest temperature records at the Sete Lagoas meteorological station were as follows: 0.8 °C on July 18, 1926; 1.3 °C on October 31, 1942; 1.5 °C on June 26, 1937 and also on May 8, 1942.
=== Distances to other cities in Minas Gerais ===
Overview adapted from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA. Photography via Wikimedia Commons.