Guimarânia 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 8,105 people living in a total area of 371 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba and to the

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Patos de Minas Patos de Minas is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Geography According to the modern (2017) geographic classification by Brazil's National Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the city is the main municipality in ...

. It became a municipality in 1963.

Location

The urban center is located at an elevation of 958 meters between

and Patrocínio on federal highway BR-265. Neighboring municipalities are:

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and

(N),

(E), Cruzeiro da Fortaleza (S), and Patrocínio (W).

Distances

* Patrocínio: 22 km *

: 43 km *

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 fo ...

: 170 km * Belo Horizonte: 461 km Connections to the north and south are made by federal highway BR-354, which lies 4 km from the city center.

Economic activities

The most important economic activities are cattle raising, commerce, and agriculture, especially the growing of coffee. The GDP in 2005 was R$ R$45 million, of which 21 million came from services, 03 million came from industry, and 19 million came from agriculture. Guimarânia is in the top tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. there was 91 banking agency in the town. There was a modest retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. There were 977 automobiles in all of the municipality (2007), about one for every 07 inhabitants.IBGE
/ref> In the rural area there were 492 establishments occupying 20,000 hectares (planted area, 5,700 ha and natural pasture 11,500 ha.) (2006). About 1,500 persons were employed in agriculture. 93 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one in 05 farms. There were 21,000 head of cattle in 2006. The main crops were coffee, soybeans, and corn.

Health and education

In the health sector there were 02 health clinics and no hospitals. In the educational sector there were 02 pre-primary schools, 04 primary schools, and 01 middle school. *Municipal

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: 0.775 (2000) *State ranking: 137 out of 853 municipalities *National ranking: 1,176 out of 5,138 municipalities *Literacy rate: 90% *Life expectancy: 74 (average of males and females)Frigoletto
/ref> *Infant mortality (1998): 19.49
/ref> The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was Poços de Caldas with 0.841, while the lowest was

Setubinha Setubinha is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020 the population was 12,378 in a total area of 536 km². The elevation is 729 metres. It is part of the IBGE statistical microregion of Teófilo ...

with 0.568. Nationally the highest was São Caetano do Sul in São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha. In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of

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has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.

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