Ninheira is a city in the northeast of the

Brazilian state The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation and self-collection) and endowed with their own government and constitution, which ...

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 ...

. In 2020 its population was estimated to be 10,326 in a total area of 1,114 km².IBGE 2020
/ref> The city belongs to the mesoregion of

Jequitinhonha Jequitinhonha is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais. Location The population was estimated to be 25,474 people living in a total area of 3,518 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinh ...

and to the microregion of Salinas. The elevation of the municipal seat is 855 meters. It became a municipality in 1997. This municipality is located on the Rio Pardo and forms a boundary with the state of

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest b ...

. Municipal boundaries are with: Águas Vermelhas, São João do Paraíso, and the state of

. The main economic activities are cattle raising and farming. The GDP was R$21,415,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies in 2006. There were 107 automobiles in 2007, a ratio of one for every 100 people. In the rural area there were 762 farms with around 2,300 people involved in the agricultural sector. There were 27 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 30 farms. The main crops were coffee, bananas, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there were 4 health clinics and no hospitals. The score on the 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, wh ...

was 0.604. This ranked Ninheira 827 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with Poços de Caldas in first place with 0.841 and

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 ...

in last place with 0.568. Se
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Statistics from IBGE
Municipalities in Minas Gerais {{MinasGerais-geo-stub

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