Cruzeiro da Fortaleza 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 3,639 people living in a total area of 185 km
2. The city belongs to the
mesoregion of
Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaiba and to the
microregion
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Austria
*Microregion (Tyrol)
Brazil
* Microregion (Brazil)
Klaus Roth and Ulf Brunnbauer
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of
Patrocínio. It became a municipality in 1963.
Location
The municipality is located in the region of the Alto Paranaíba, south of the Paranaíba River and west of the Emborcação Reservoir. Neighboring municipalities are:
Guimarânia (N),
Serra do Salitre
Serra do Salitre is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2020 was 11,668 living in a total area of 1,298 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paran ...
(E) and (S), and
Patrocínio (W).
Distances
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Guimarânia: 18 km
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Monte Carmelo: 20 km
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Patrocínio: 40 km
*
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 ...
: 66 km
*
Belo Horizonte: 413 km
Geography
The maximum elevation is 1,179 meters, at Cabeceira do Córrego da Limeira; the minimum elevation is 868 meters, at Foz do Córrego do Tonico. In the central point of the town the elevation is 840 meters. The average yearly temperature is 20.7 C; the average yearly maximum is 27.9 C; and the average yearly minimum is 14.8 C. The average yearly rainfall is 1,569.1 mm. Half of the land is flat and half is hilly. The main rivers are the Rio Fortaleza and the Córrego do Jacu.
Prefeitura Municipal de Cruzeiro da Fortaleza
Economic activities
The most important economic activities are cattle raising, commerce, and agriculture. The GDP in 2005 was R$ R$27 million, with 12 million generated by services, 01 million generated by industry, and 12 million generated by agriculture. Cruzeiro da Fronteira is in the top tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. there was one banking agency in the town. There was a modest retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. There were 378 automobiles in all of the municipality (2007), about one for every 10 inhabitants.[IBGE](_blank)
Cruzeiro da Fronteira has a small municipal area and therefore little available land for agriculture. In the rural area there were 189 establishments (2006) occupying 15,000 hectares (planted area—3,500 ha, and natural pasture—8,000 ha.). About 600 persons were dependent on agriculture. 48 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one in 09 farms. There were 16,000 head of cattle in 2006. The main crops were coffee, corn, rice, and soybeans.
Health and education
In 2006 there were 04 health clinics, 03 pre-school, 03 primary schools and one middle school.Human Development Index
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: 0.795 (2000)
*State ranking: 54 out of 853 municipalities
*National ranking: 669 out of 5,138 municipalities
*Literacy rate: 92%
*Life expectancy: 73 (average of males and females)[Frigoletto](_blank)
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 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 ...
has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.
References
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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Municipalities in Minas Gerais