Aricanduva is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. the population was 5,269 in a total area of 243 km². The elevation is 682 meters. It is part of the IBGE statistical meso-region of Jequitinhonha and the micro-region of

Capelinha Capelinha is a Brazilian municipality located in the north-center of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 38,057 living in a total area of 966 km². The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the statist ...

. It became a municipality in 1995. The economy is based on cattle raising and agriculture, with the main crops being coffee, sugarcane, and corn. There were plantations of eucalyptus trees for charcoal production. In 2005 there were 622 rural producers but only 7 tractors. there were no hospitals and 3 public health clinics. Educational needs were met by 11 primary schools and 1 middle school. There were 114 automobiles in 2006, giving a ratio of 45 inhabitants per automobile. There were no banks in 2007. Neighboring municipalities are:

, Itamarandiba and

São Sebastião do Maranhão São Sebastião do Maranhão is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South Americ ...

. The distance to

Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...

is 419 km. The nearest major population center, Capelinha, is 15 km. on secondary roads. Municipal Human Development Index Aricanduva is ranked very low on the MHDI and was one of the poorest municipalities in the state and in the country in 2000. *MHDI: .636 (2000) *State ranking: 773 out of 853 municipalities *National ranking: 3,996 out of 5,138 municipalities in 2000 *Life expectancy: 70 *Literacy rate: 67 (''For the complete list see'
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*Combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio: .728 *Per capita income (monthly): R$80.00
* Urbanization rate: 24.91 *Percentage of urban residences connected to sewage system: 65.70 *Infant mortality rate: 65.93 (the national average was 18.91). The above figures can be compared with those of

Poços de Caldas Poços de Caldas is a municipality in the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name. Its estimated population in 2020 was 168,641 inhabitants. The city is known for its hot springs. History Poços was founded in 1 ...

, which had an MHDI of .841, the highest in the state of Minas Gerais. The highest in the country was

São Caetano do Sul São Caetano do Sul (or São Caetano) ('' Saint Cajetan of the South''. ) is a city in São Paulo state in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 161,957 (2020 est.) in an area of 15.33 km2. It is the ci ...

in the state of São Paulo with an MHDI of .919. The lowest was Manari in the state of Pernambuco with an MHDI of .467 out of a total of 5504 municipalities in the country . At last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities so this might have changed at the time of this writing.

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Municipalities in Minas Gerais {{MinasGerais-geo-stub

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