The elevation is 965 m. It is located in the north-center of the state near the rich industrial and agricultural region of the Triângulo Mineiro, on BR 365 between Patos de Minas and Uberlândia.

Patrocínio is surrounded by the following municipalities: Coromandel to the north, Guimarânia, Cruzeiro da Fortaleza and Serra do Salitre to the east, Perdizes to the south and Iraí de Minas and Monte Carmelo to the west.

The municipality has the greatest area of the region inundated by the Hydroelectric Reservoir of Nova Ponte, a total of 135.44 square kilometers.

[3] The vegetation is cerrado, a landscape characterized by extensive savanna formations crossed by gallery forests and stream valleys.

Traditionally this region was used for cattle raising, but in recent years the growing of soybeans has made encroachments causing the loss of most of the trees.

As a city located in the southern Hemisphere, the spring starts in September, summer in December, autumn in March, and winter in June.

[5] Patrocínio has four districts: Salitre de Minas, São João da Serra Negra, Silvano e Santa Luzia dos Barros.

The main villages are São Benedito, Tejuco, Chapadão de Ferro, Dourados, Boa Vista, Santo Antônio do Quebra Anzol, Pedros and Macaúbas.

These large ranches, together with dozens of small producers, raise approximately 5,399 sows, with an average production of 22 piglets a year, with a total of more than 125,000 head.

There are industries of ceramics, cold meats, animal feed, textiles – Minas Silk, and various warehouses to process coffee.

The cultivation of coffee began in the 1970s when strong frost decimated the large farms of Paraná and São Paulo.

The region has a mild climate, good water distribution, with a large number of streams, and an annual rainfall considered ideal for coffee—about 1,600 milliliters.

There are also 4 private schools, Colégio Nossa Senhora do Patrocínio, Prisma, Atenas, ABC and several child care centers.

It is believed that Chapadão is the impact crater, which is clearly seen through Google Earth to the right of the city, being a small part of it a lake, and the large remainder farm land.

[3] There is a stadium for professional football—Estádio Júlio Aguiar—and a sports center seating several thousand spectators for basketball, volleyball and shows.

[citation needed] The origins of the region begin with the bandeirantes, explorers during the Portuguese colonial period, who passed through on their way to the capitania of Goiás looking for gold and slaves.

The name of the city is supposedly due to a very rich landowner, who, according to the legend, upon seeing his only daughter gravely ill, asked protection from the Virgin Mary, promising the construction of a chapel if the girl was cured.