São João das Missões is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian 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 ...
. As of 2020 the population was 13,125 in a total area of 675 km². The elevation is 501 meters. It became a municipality in 1997.
São João das Missões is part of the statistical microregion of
Januária
(''The Queen of the Beautiful Waters'')
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. It is located 21 kilometers southwest of
Manga, which is on the
São Francisco River. To the south is the
Parque Nacional Caverna do Peruaçu. The nearest regional center is
Januária
(''The Queen of the Beautiful Waters'')
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. Twenty percent of the population lived in the urban area and 40 percent was of the
Xacriabá tribe.
The administrative division of the municipality consists of the municipal seat (distrito da sede), the district of Rancharia, 12 villages, and 21 hamlets of the Xacriabá Indian tribe. Surrounding municipalities are:
Miravânia,
Manga and
Itacarambi
Itacarambi is a municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. the population was 18,164 in an area of 1,252 km².
*The elevation of the municipal seat is 445 meters.
*It became a municipality in 1962.
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This is one of the poorest municipalities in the state and in the country. Isolation and drought mean that most of the inhabitants live in
extreme poverty. The main economic activities are cattle raising (14,000 head in 2006) and farming with modest production of sugarcane, beans, sorghum, tomatoes,
mamona, and corn. In 2006 there were 861 rural producers in a total area of 16,154 hectares. Cropland made up 2,000 hectares. Only one farm had a tractor. In the urban area there were no financial institutions as of 2006. There were 89 automobiles (2007), giving a ratio of about one automobile for every 121 inhabitants. Health care was provided by 3 public health clinics. There were no hospitals.
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 ...
*MHDI: .595 (2000)
*State ranking: 840 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000
*National ranking: 4,760 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000
*Life expectancy: 69
*Literacy rate: 56
*Combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio: .694
*Per capita income (monthly): R$55.62 (''For the complete list see'
Frigoletto
''Note that at last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities while Minas Gerais still had 853''.
The above figures can be compared with those of
Poços de Caldas, which had an MHDI of .841, the highest in 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 ...
. The highest MHDI in the country (2000) was
São Caetano do Sul in the state of
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the Ga ...
with an MHDI of .919. More up-to-date data from 2004 show that the lowest in that year was
Manari in the state of
Pernambuco
Pernambuco () is a States of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of the country. With an estimated population of 9.6 million people as of 2020, making it List of Brazilian states by population, sev ...
with an MHDI of .467 out of a total of 5504 municipalities in the country as of 2004. At last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities so this might have changed at the time of this writing.
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See also
*List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais (MG), located in the Southeast Region of Brazil. Minas Gerais is divided into 853 municipalities, which are grouped into 66 microregions, which are grouped into 12 mesoregions.
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References
IBGE
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Municipalities in Minas Gerais