Montes Claros

Montes Claros is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The 2022 census figures compiled by City Population count 414,240 inhabitants in the municipality, against 362,148 at the 2010 census and 306,947 at the 2000 census. GeoNames places Montes Claros at latitude -16.73500 and longitude -43.86167, about 686 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, and assigns it to a time zone that is UTC-3 in the IANA time zone database. GeoNames lists it as a populated place. Montes Claros is not the capital of Minas Gerais, which is Belo Horizonte. The atlas places it in the South America subregion and treats it as a city for browsing purposes. GeoNames carries a population figure of 437,601 for it.