Vale do Rio Doce (mesoregion)

Vale do Rio Doce (English: Doce River valley) is one of the twelve mesoregions of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is composed of 102 municipalities,^[1] distributed across 7 microregions.

Vale do Rio Doce
Mesoregion
Location within Minas Gerais
Coordinates: 18°51′03″S 41°56′56″W
Country	Brazil
Region	Southeast
State	Minas Gerais
Area
• Total	41,809.873 km2 (16,142.882 sq mi)
Population  (2006/IBGE)
• Total	1,588,122
Time zone	UTC-3 (BRT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-2 (BRST)
Area code	+55 38

Demography

Largest cities in Vale do Rio Doce (mesoregion)|the Vale do Rio Doce mesoregion (IBGE 2010 census)[2]
	Rank		Microregion	Pop.	Rank		Microregion	Pop.
Governador Valadares Ipatinga	1	Governador Valadares	Governador Valadares	263594	11	Inhapim	Caratinga	24294	Coronel Fabriciano Caratinga
	2	Ipatinga	Ipatinga	239177	12	Belo Oriente	Ipatinga	23397
	3	Coronel Fabriciano	Ipatinga	103797	13	Itambacuri	Governador Valadares	22797
	4	Caratinga	Caratinga	85322	14	Conselheiro Pena	Aimorés	22232
	5	Timóteo	Ipatinga	81119	15	Ipanema	Aimorés	18169
	6	Guanhães	Guanhães	31266	16	Peçanha	Peçanha	17270
	7	Santana do Paraíso	Ipatinga	27258	17	Resplendor	Aimorés	17099
	8	Mantena	Mantena	27115	18	Ipaba	Caratinga	16692
	9	Mutum	Aimorés	26672	19	Sabinópolis	Guanhães	15707
	10	Aimorés	Aimorés	24969	20	São João Evangelista	Guanhães	15538

See also

• 1967 Rio Doce State Park wildfire