Dayana Flávia Nascimento Silva, Sub-area Census Coordinator in Paraopeba/MG, together with Census Supervisor Lucas Rafael Araújo, and guides who work in the region, overcame difficulties to enumerate four housing units in a hard-to-reach area in Serra de Fechados (a mountainous area), in Santana de Pirapama (MG). Read Dayana’s report below.

A summary o four day on Serra de Fechados in Santana de Pirapama- MG::

• I drove for 04 hours.
• We traveled on horseback for 8 hours and a half.
• There was sunlight, rain, and hail at different times.
• We saw amazing landscapes.
• We found shelter in a church on top of the mountain range.
• We met people I’ll never forget.
• We got exhausted. And laughed!
• Pain, bruises, ticks.
• Housing units.
• Persons being enumerated.
• If that’s not portraying the country, I don’t know what it is. So many stories!