Claraval is a Brazilian municipality located in the southwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 4,295 people living in a total area of 210 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of Passos. It became a municipality in 1953.
Ex-District of Garimpo das Canoas, belonging to the municipality of Ibiraci, it was elevated to the category of municipality in 1953, with the new name of Claraval. The origin of the toponym was an homage paid to Saint Bernard, Prior of Claraval (Clairvaux, in French), since the year of the administrative emancipation of the town coincided with the eight hundredth anniversary of the saint's death.
The city center of Claraval is located at an elevation of 745 meters in a fertile region on the state boundary with São Paulo. The Canoas river forms the boundary. Neighboring municipalities are: Ibiraci (NE, E, and SE), Franca (SW), Cristais Paulista (W), and Pedregulho (NW).
With all the tears and rain
In every pleasure and every pain
and despair, delight, disdain
I hurt you, didn't i?
The summer was almost gone
I won't forget the first time
Swimming in pools of your innocence
Leave your mark and the colourflow of you
Hey don't you feel sensation?
Hey don't you feel the yearn?
Just lying there for the taking
Don't give, make me earn all your love
Promise me all your soul
Give to me all your heart
You'll never be on your own
For all your life
You know you made me shine
Through orange lights and wet streets
But that's outside our undercover
You concerned me when you showed me
The colourflow of you
Hey don't you feel emotion?
Hey don't you feel spellbound?
Just lying there for the taking
What you lost I found all your love
Promise me all your soul
Give to me all your heart
You'll never be on your own
For all your life
Some people make it look so easy
Some you think they'd never heard of compromise
But we can speak oceans by motions
We simplify all your love
Promise me all your soul
Give to me all your heart
You'll never be on your own
For all your life