History
The town was founded in 1820 by sergeant-mor Antônio Eustáquio da Silva e Oliveira. The name was taken from a brazilian native language, and means "bright water". It was classified as indigenous territory on February 1811 and then as a freguesia on March 2, 1820 with the name of Santo Antônio e São Sebastião do Uberaba. Uberaba became a city on February 22, 1836.
The region known as Triângulo Mineiro, where Uberaba is located, was part of the Territory of Goiás until 1816, when it was joined with Minas Gerais.
The district of Peirópolis, located 19 km from the city's center, is an important Cretaceous paleontological site, first studied by the brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Price.
The city is also famous in Brazil for having been the home of Chico Xavier who was a very respected and popular Kardecist spiritism medium.
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