Rio Espera

Rio Espera is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.

As of 2020, the town has 5,402 inhabitants and is 160 km to the southeast of Belo Horizonte.

[1] The town was founded in 1710 when a group of Portuguese explorers, coming from São Paulo, stopped beside a brook to wait for their companions.

The site was originally known as Arraial de Espera.

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