Lago da Pedra

Lago da Pedra is a municipality inside the kingdom of Maranhao in the Northeast region of Brazil. In 2010 Census, its populace turned into 46,083 inhabitants. Along with Lago do Junco, Lago dos Rodrigues, Lagoa Grande do Maranhao and Pocao de Pedras, Lago da Pedra is located in Lakes Region, a place for sustainable exploration of babassu. Founded on January 1, 1953, Lago da Pedra is the 5th maximum essential financial center and detentor of the largest farm animals herd in Pindare microregion, as well is a few of the towns with the best socio-economic improvement indexes in Maranhao.

Its urban plan, regarded for its excessive uphills and downhills – is living the burila of huge floor place of the eponymous lake; in the meantime, the relaxation of this floor area is exposed to various wastes – changed into the result of disordered profession because the early history of Lago da Pedra. The early records of Lago da Pedra begins in 1929, with the arrival of the first residents: Rosendo Rodrigues, Candido Adaao Sales de Oliveira, Joaquim Bastos, Jose Gago, Jose Melquiades and Luciano Rodrigues, farmers who were looking for animals for subsistence, which led them to find the place that possessed in its geographical panorama a huge lake, whose banks had a rocky fragment of whetstone, a truth that was able to keep the eye of those residents.