Itá-nhomima

Itanhomi lies among the streams of the Rio Doce basin in eastern Minas Gerais. Its name is explained through Tupi words for “hidden stone.” The Queiroga and other small watercourses cross this hilly, forested country on their way toward the Doce. Indigenous peoples known as Botocudos inhabited the region before its later settlement by outsiders, leaving a history older than the town that eventually took the name Itanhomi.