Map - Nanuque, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Nanuque)

Nanuque is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, in the southeastern region of Brazil, belonging to Mucuri Valley and Region Nanuque. The relief consists of inselbergs and seas of hills, and the Serra dos Aimorés as predominant characteristic. Considered the 79th most populous city in the state, the 2nd Northeast 1st miner and its region, with 40,665 inhabitants according to the 2020 estimate. According to DENATRAN its fleet is 17,782 motor vehicles. As a regional hub ten municipalities, their total area 116,545 inhabitants and a total area of 8471.872 km ². Nanuque, cut the highway Ox (BR-418), reference is to be en route to the northern coast of Espirito Santo state by state highway LMG-719 and the southern coast of Bahia state by the then federal highway BR-418, of which is 605 km to the northeast of the state capital Belo Horizonte and 1257 km east of the federal capital Brasília.

Nanuque is a tourist town belonging to the Gemstones circuit, characterized by its high mountains of the Sierra Aimorés. In its urban environment, Nanuque has tourist accommodation, restaurants, plazas, and lakes.

Among the natural attractions are the Serra dos Aimorés, where can be seen the boundaries of three states rising in Fritz's Stone, which is 25 km from the center of Nanuque and is about a thousand meters high, one of the biggest points of mountaineering northeast of Minas Gerais. Fritz's Stone is used to practice sports like skydiving and mountain climbing, because of its huge stone wall.

The city also has the President Bueno Stone, with views of the city, the Mucuri River, a place for canoeing, the St. Helena Quarry, which is a lookout point north of the city the Tree of Herons in the central area.