Serra dos Aimorés is a Brazilian

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

located in the north-east of the

state State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ...

, at its namesake, the Serra dos Aimorés. Its population as of 2020 was 8,713 living in a total area of 215 km². The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Vale do Mucuri and to the statistical

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Nanuque Nanuque is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, in the southeastern region of Brazil, belonging to Mucuri Valley and the Nanuque region. The relief consists of inselbergs and seas of hills, and the Serra dos Aimorés as predominant charac ...

. It became a municipality in 1962. Before this time, it was a disputed region between the states of Minas Gerais and

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Geography

Serra dos Aimorés is located at an elevation of 209 meters on the state boundary with

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. The nearest major population center is

. Most of the population lives in the urban area. The distance to

is 25 km; and the distance to the state capital,

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, is 616 km. Neighboring municipalities are:

, Ibirapuã (Bahia), and Ibiranhém, (Bahia).

Economy

The main economic activities are services, small industries, and

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. The GDP in 2005 was , with 20 million from services, 13 million from industry, and 6 million from agriculture. There were 146 rural producers on 12,000 hectares of land. Only 11 farms had tractors (2006). 800 persons were dependent on agriculture. The main crops were coconuts, sugarcane, beans, and corn. There were 26,000 head of cattle (2006). There was 1 bank (2007) and 382 automobiles (203 motorcycles), giving a ratio of 20 inhabitants per automobile.

Social indicators

The social indicators rank it in the bottom tier of municipalities in the state. *Municipal

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: 0.655 (2000) *State ranking: 731 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000 *National ranking: 3,699 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000 *Literacy rate: 74% *Life expectancy: 62 (average of males and females) In terms of HDI, 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 Immediate Geographic Region of Teófilo O ...

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.

Health and education

There were 6 health clinics (2 specialized) (2006). Patients with more serious health conditions are transported to Nanuque. Educational needs were met by 10 primary schools, 1 middle school, and 5 pre-primary schools.IBGE
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1962 establishments in Minas Gerais Municipalities in Minas Gerais {{MinasGerais-geo-stub

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