Ka'a-eté

Caeté lies among the wooded hills of Minas Gerais, in a region opened to colonial mining at the end of the seventeenth century. Gold drew prospectors from São Paulo and elsewhere, and rivalry over the new workings helped provoke the War of the Emboabas. After the fighting, the settlement grew under Portuguese administration and became Vila Nova da Rainha do Caeté in 1714.

The later city of Belo Horizonte lies here.