Peçanha
Peçanha is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil. Peçanha is located 130mi northeast of Belo Horizonte. The municipality holds a population of 17,863 as of 2025, 68% of which identify as mixed/other, followed by white people at 21% and Afro-Brazilians at 11%.- Town with about 17,400 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 780 metres (2,560 feet)
- Description: town and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil
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Latitude
-18.548° or 18° 32′ 53″ south
Longitude
-42.559° or 42° 33′ 33″ west
Open location code
58HVFC2R+R9
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OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Peçanha” goes by many names.
بيسانهاArabic
PeçanhaBasque
পেকানহাBishnupriya
PeçanhaCatalan
PeçanhaCebuano
ПесаньяChechen
佩萨尼亚Chinese
PeçanhaDutch
PeçanhaEsperanto
პესანიაGeorgian
PeçanhaHungarian
PeçanhaIrish
PeçanhaItalian
ПесаньяKazakh
PeçanhaMalagasy
پچانهاMazanderani
PeçanhaMin Nan Chinese
PeçanhaNorwegian
PeçanhaNorwegian Bokmål
PeçanhaTurkish
پیسینیا، برازیلUrdu
PeçanhaUzbek
PeçanhaVietnamese
PeçanhaVolapük
PeçanhaWaray (Philippines)
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Notable Places Nearby
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Minas Gerais: Highlights
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