Campo Mourão
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Partial view of Campo Mourao
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| Coordinates: 24°02′45″S 52°22′58″W / 24.04583°S 52.38278°WCoordinates: 24°02′45″S 52°22′58″W / 24.04583°S 52.38278°W | |||
| Country |
 Brazil
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| Region | Southern | ||
| State | Paraná | ||
| Microregion | Campo Mourão | ||
| Mesoregion | Centro Ocidental Paranaense | ||
| HDI | 0.779 average | ||
| Government | |||
| • Type | Democracy | ||
| • Mayor | Regina Dubay | ||
| Area | |||
| • Total | 292,321 sq mi (757,109 km2) | ||
| Elevation | 2,066 ft (630 m) | ||
| Population (90460) | |||
| • Total | 90,460 | ||
| • Density | 290/sq mi (113/km2) | ||
| Time zone | UTC -3 | ||
| Area code(s) | 044 | ||
| Website | http://www.campomourao.pr.gov.br/ | ||
Campo Mourão is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Paraná. Its population in 2009 was 90,460 inhabitants. The people from Campo Mourão are called mourãoenses.
The region of the "Fields" bordered by the Atlantic forest and Araucaria, headquarters of the Nation Guarani, began to be visited by the Spanish Jesuits between 1524 and 1541 and by the Paulist from 1628. The region belonged to the former Spanish possession call Guairá Province, with capital in Asunción, Paraguay today. In 1765 he began to be raided by government militias in the captaincy of São Paulo, who named the valley between the wilderness and rivers Ivaí Piquiri of "Campos do Mourão" in homage to the governor of the captaincy of São Paulo, Luís António de Sousa Botelho Mourão (commonly known as Morgado de Mateus). In the 1890s the natural pasture and native vegetation of the "Campo Mourão" served as a resting spot for travelers who passed through the region, playing herds to negotiate in Mato Grosso do Sul in 1903 came and stood at "Campos do Mourão "The family of São Paulo Matheus Vieira dos Santos (better known as Tirso) Baron Portuguese Henrique Cardoso of Jesus, with his wife, Baroness Sarah Elizabeth Cardoso, and admired and prestigious family of William and Karoline Krenski, followed by Andrade, Caramel, Davanso, Rinaldo, Oliveira, Mendonça, Flores, Ribeiro Mendes and guarapuavanos Gustavo, Paulatti Peri, John Benedict, Norberto Marcondes, Jorge Walter (Russian), among other pioneers such as Barbara Louise Ferreira Tiago Hobold (me too) followed by their families Metchko, Brzezinski, Staniszewski, Hruschka, Schumoski, Zalewski, Klanke, Wronski, Slomp, Kwitshal, Behrens, Seratiuk, Almeida, Heickhoff, Lokonski and others with Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Italians and Japanese who settled in large areas within Campos do Mourão. Campo Mourão until 1943 belonged to the Guarapuava. From that year became a district of the city of Pitanga and 10 October 1947 began to walk on his own, emancipated politically and economically by Law 02/47, passed by Governor Moses Lupion, having as its first mayor appointed 18 October 1947 José Antonio dos Santos and then Pedro Viriato de Sousa Filho, first elected mayor. Until the 1960s the city of Campo Mourão understand all the micro and 12 municipalities that were part of today to their administrative districts. In the 80s, were separated from their last two administrative districts: Luiziana Lighthouse and the West, leaving just the tutelage of his district Piquirivaí. Has its origins in ancient roads where they went flying circus and stores coming from Mato Grosso and São Paulo to destinations west of Paraná
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