Grupiara is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally ...
. Its population was 1,387 people living in a total area of 192 km². The city belongs to the
mesoregion of
Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba and to the
microregion of
Patrocínio
Patrocínio is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population is 91,449 (2020 est.) in an area of 2874 km2. The elevation is 965 m.
Highway connections
Patrocínio is connected with Uberlândia by BR-365 (154 km) ...
. It became a municipality in 1962.
Location
The municipality is located in the region of the Alto Paranaíba, on the edge of the
Emborcação Reservoir, which dams up the
Paranaíba River. More than half of the municipal territory is covered by water seriously limiting agricultural production. The elevation of the town center is 713 meters. Highway connections are made by local road to MG-223, which connects to BR-050 north of
Araguari. Neighboring municipalities are:
Catalão (N),
Douradoquara (E)
Monte Carmelo
Monte Carmelo is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 was 47,931 people living in a total area of . The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba a ...
and
Estrela do Sul
Estrela do Sul is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 8,018 people living in a total area of 820 km2. The city belongs to the Mesoregion (Brazil), mesoregion of Triângulo Mine ...
(S), and
Catalão (W).
Distances
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Monte Carmelo
Monte Carmelo is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2020 was 47,931 people living in a total area of . The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba a ...
: 65 km
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Araguari: 100 km
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Uberlândia
Uberlândia () is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It is the second largest municipality in the state of Minas Gerais after the state capital Belo Horizonte. Its population in 2020 was 699,097, making it the fou ...
: 130 km
*
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 ...
: 553 km
Until the 1990s Grupiara was on the railroad line of the RFFSA and had its own station. With the flooding to make the Emborcação Reservoir in the 1990s the line was discontinued and moved further east to
Araguari. The railroad station is now under water.
Estações ferroviarias
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Economic activities
The most important economic activities are cattle raising for meat and dairy, commerce, and agriculture, with the main crops being coffee, corn, rice, and citrus fruits. The GDP in 2005 was R$11 million 800 thousand, with 06 million generated by services, five hundred thousand generated by industry, and 04 million, 500 thousand generated by agriculture. Grupiara is in the middle tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. there were no banking agencies in the town. There was a modest retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. There were 158 automobiles in all of the municipality (2007), about one for every 09 inhabitants.[IBGE](_blank)
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Grupiara has a small municipal area and therefore little available land for agriculture. In the rural area there were 104 establishments (2006) occupying 11,000 hectares (planted area: 900 ha,; natural pasture: 8,200 ha.; and woodland: 1,600 ha.). About 250 persons were dependent on agriculture. 19 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one in 05 farms. There were 9,000 head of cattle in 2006. The main crops were coffee, corn, rice, and soybeans .
Health and education
In the health sector there was 01 health clinic. In the educational sector there was 01 pre-primary schools, 01 primary school, and 01 middle school.
Grupiara is in the top tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development.
*Municipal Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistic composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, whi ...
: 0.779 (2000)
*State ranking: 123 out of 853 municipalities
*National ranking: 1,098 out of 5,138 municipalities
*Literacy rate: 89%
*Life expectancy: 73 (average of males and females)[Frigoletto](_blank)
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The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was 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 ...
with 0.841, while the lowest was Setubinha with 0.568. Nationally the highest 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 São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha. In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of Pernambuco
Pernambuco () is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it seventh-most populous state of Brazil and with around 98,148 km², being the 19 ...
has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.
References
See also
* List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
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Municipalities in Minas Gerais