POMBA, VILLA DA, a town of Brazil, in the province of Minas Gerais, on the River Pomba, an affluent of the Parahyba, 60 miles E.S.E. of Ouro Preto. It has a church and town-hall; and most of the inhabitants are employed in the cultivation of the sugar-cane. Some trade is carried on in sugar, rum, &c. Pop. of the district, 12,000.