Dom Bosco is a Brazilian municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. In 2007 the population was 3,781 in a total area of 822 km². The elevation of the municipal seat is 610 meters above sea level.
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At 8.5 million square kilometers and with over 208 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the fifth most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populated city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states, the Federal District, and the 5,570 municipalities. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; it is also one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world.
Minas Gerais is a state in the north of Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte, is a major urban and finance center in Latin America, and the sixth largest municipality in Brazil, after the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasilia and Fortaleza, but its metropolitan area is the third largest in Brazil with just over 5,500,000 inhabitants, after those of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Nine Brazilian presidents were born in Minas Gerais, the most of any state.
Dom Bosco is located northeast of Paracatu and southeast of Unaí. Highway connections with Unaí are made by MG-188 and BR-251. The distance to Unaí is approximately 85 km.
Paracatu is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
Unaí is a municipality in the Northern Region of Minas Gerais, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, in the Southeast Region of Brazil. It is located 590 km from the capital of Minas Gerais and 164 km from the federal capital. Unaí is the main municipality of its micro-region of the same name and, together with Paracatu, the most important city of the said mesoregion of Minas Gerais. Due to its geopolitical location, because it is geographically and politically linked to Brasilia and politically to Belo Horizonte, the municipality has a strong economic dynamism for a municipality that still carries the typically mineiro custom.
The main economic activities are cattle raising (34,000 head in 2006) and the growing of soybeans (450 ha.), corn (1,700 ha.), beans, and rice. There is also small production of coffee and mangoes. The main employers are public administration and agriculture. In 2006 there were 406 farms employing over 1,000 people. In 2007 there were 169 automobiles. There were no banks as of 2007 [update] .
In the school system there were 826 students enrolled in 4 primary schools and 224 students enrolled in 1 middle school (2006). In 2005 there were 2 public health clinics.
