Vicosa

Vicosa is a Brazilian municipality in the kingdom of Minas Gerais. Its populace in July 2016 turned into expected at 77,863 population. It is a metropolis basically oriented to training, with emphasis at the Federal University of Vicosa, founded in 1926 via the president of the Republic Arthur da Silva Bernardes, who changed into born in Vicosa. It additionally possesses different personal higher training institutions, emphasizing the instructional individual of the metropolis.

It is a town that attracts many people from Brazil and different nations because of scientific and academic activities that take region across the university, totaling about 500 annual activities. Before colonization, the location of the Piranga River basin turned into inhabited by using Botocudos and Puris Indians, who with the Tamoios belonged to the Tupi organization. Although traversed via some bandeirantes in century XVII remained occupied by means of natives until then.

The white-European agreement of the area commenced within the eighteenth century through the settlements placed on the banks of the Caminho Novo - a street opened by the colonial authorities for gold to be taken directly from the Minas area to Rio de Janeiro, shortening the course and retaining its monopoly, which used to be made thru the Mantiqueira canyons, passing through the Serra do Mar and the bay of Ilha Grande, at the Sao Paulo coast, only to reach Rio de Janeiro. This agreement befell at first timidly, because the Portuguese Crown prohibited the career of the "Sertoes of East" region.