Talk:Minas Gerais

Regions

I'd just like to state my intention to revise the region scheme for Minas Gerais. As a basis, I intend to use the 10 regions the MG government designates for planning purposes, laid out with spiffy maps on the Portuguese Wikipedia. Almost all the articles for this state are in pretty bad shape or not existent at all (no article for Uberaba yet??). I intend to remedy that, but first I'd really like to have clearly defined sub-regions in place.(WT-en) Texugo 12:23, 22 March 2010 (EDT)

Almost exactly 3 years later and we still haven't got a Wikivoyage-style map together for these. I'm going to be doing some work on this state... Texugo (talk) 02:35, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Regions - Take 2

OK. Here is what I propose, combining a little further from the above to get down to 9 regions:

Triângulo Mineiro

Northwest

North

Central West

Central East

Jequitinhonha-Mucuri

Rio Doce

South

Zona da Mata

I would like to implement this soon so I can further clean up and expand the destinations in this state. It is mostly already implemented anyway. Any comments? Texugo (talk) 20:45, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

• If it doesn't clutter the map too much, it would be nice to have the rivers, highways, national parks and a few more cities. I suggest adding Araxá, São Roque de Minas, Paracatu, Poços de Caldas and maybe Mariana. 200.252.135.74 21:00, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for your input. Yes, I hope to find time to add those things on the map too. Just made a relatively simple map for now since I'm currently more concentrated on organizing the states, but there is an editable .svg of this on commons now, so either I can do it sometime down the road, or you or anyone else who knows how can feel free to do it. Texugo (talk) 21:06, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Also, the South region is the only one which doesn't show a city on the map. What city would be most representative? Texugo (talk) 21:08, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

The most visited and interesting are Poços de Caldas (hydrothermal site) and São Thomé das Letras (hippie hotspot with some good waterfalls). 200.252.135.74 21:18, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

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Regions, again

Ten years ago, Minais Gerais was split into 10 subregions along the borders that the state government "designates for planning purposes". These borders don't have any relevance to travellers, especially as we have few articles for the state:

Northern Minas Gerais:

•  Triângulo Mineiro -- 3 articles
•  Northwest -- 0 articles
•  Jequitinhonha-Mucuri -- 1 article
•  North -- 1 article

Central Minas Gerais:

•  Central West -- 2 articles
•  Central East -- 11 articles

Southern Minas Gerais:

•  Rio Doce -- 1 article
•  South -- 4 articles
•  Zona da Mata1 -- 3 articles

@Ibaman, SHB2000: does it make sense to split the state into 3 regions instead, or is there a better way of combining the existing subregions? Ground Zero (talk) 15:38, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

• the scheme you propose sounds logical and appropriate to me, yes, it makes sense. It's a pity Texugo is not around anymore, he would be a great help in this task. Ibaman (talk) 15:52, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Support. Much better than my proposal on Talk:Northwest (Minas Gerais). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 22:52, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

Yeah, this looks fine to me. Thanks for proposing it! Ikan Kekek (talk) 23:32, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

The mergers are done. I'm going to work on improving the new region articles. I am not able to update the map on this article, though. Ground Zero (talk) 14:03, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

Map

Here is a dynamic map showing the new regions. Ground Zero (talk) 17:45, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Northern Minas Gerais

Central Minas Gerais

Southern Minas Gerais

@SHB2000: here is another map that could use a static version when you gave time. This one's much more straightforward. Ground Zero (talk) 17:53, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the ping – I'll be sure to try and make one sometime in the next few days. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 23:32, 1 July 2023 (UTC)

@Ground Zero: I realise it's been over 4 days, but I'll try to start the map tomorrow – I'm currently using a loan computer and expect to receive my computer back sometime tomorrow (which has Inkscape downloaded). Sorry for the wait. --1.144.104.253 12:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Sorry, Wi-Fi died – that IP above is me. --SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 12:30, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Don't apologize. We're all volunteers here. I will be grateful when you get around to it as it is not something I could do. It is unfortunate that so many subregions were created prematurely, creating the need now for consolidation. As I'm looking at Brazilian and Italian regions, I am now looking for ways to avoid having to draw new maps. Ground Zero (talk) 13:18, 5 July 2023 (UTC)

Map of Minas Gerais

Well, my computer finally arrived and here's the map (also on right). I didn't include any highways or freeways as that would make the map very crowded (not surprising given that the population of SP alone is over 12.3 million). SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 01:43, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

@SHB2000: that looks great! Thank you very much! Ground Zero (talk) 10:51, 6 July 2023 (UTC)

My pleasure – and I'll get to Paraná tomorrow. In the meantime, I nominated this map for QI on Commons. SHB2000 (talk | contribs | meta) 11:07, 6 July 2023 (UTC)