Sete Lagoas

Sete Lagoas takes its name from the lakes scattered across a plain in the interior of Minas Gerais. Indigenous inhabitants called the area Vupabuçu. In the seventeenth century the expedition of Fernão Dias Paes searched the surrounding country for minerals. Around 1750 the Portuguese crown granted land at the site to Antônio Pinto de Magalhães; the estate later passed through other hands and was divided into farms.