Lagoa Formosa 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 18,111 people living in a total area of 844 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 1962.

Location

The urban center is located at an elevation of 902 meters 19 km southeast of

on federal highway BR-354. Neighboring municipalities are:

(N),

Carmo do Paranaíba Carmo do Paranaíba is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 30,334 people living in a total area of . The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba and ...

(E),

(S), and

(W). Sister city *

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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) ...

: 81 km *

: 19 km *

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: 236 km *

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: 380 km *

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: 800 km *

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: 790 km *

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: 436 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$103 million, of which 50 million came from services, 06 million came from industry, and 42 million came from agriculture. Lagoa Formosa is in the top tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. there was 01 banking agency in the town. There was a modest retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. There were 2,647 automobiles in all of the municipality (2007), about one for every 06 inhabitants.IBGE
In the rural area there were 1,666 establishments occupying 62,000 hectares (planted area, 9,500 ha, and natural pasture, 45,500 ha.) (2006). About 4,400 persons were employed in agriculture. 114 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one in 12 farms. There were 64,000 head of cattle in 2006. The main crops were coffee, soybeans, beans and corn.

Health and education

In the health sector there were 11 health clinics and one hospital with 26 beds. In the educational sector there were 05 pre-primary schools, 09 primary schools, and 02 middle schools. *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 ...

: 0.749 (2000) *State ranking: 287 out of 853 municipalities *National ranking: 1,897 out of 5,138 municipalities *Literacy rate: 87% *Life expectancy: 73 (average of males and females)Frigoletto
*Infant mortality rate (2000): 19.5 for every 1,000 live births *Urban houses with piped water: 97.9%; *Urban houses connected to sewage system: 94.9%; *Urban houses with rubbish collection: 93.8%.Camara Municipal de Lagoa Formosa
The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was

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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

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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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