Curral de Dentro is a municipality in the northeast 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 ...
. the population was 7,799 in a total area of 571 km
2. The elevation is 890 meters. It became a municipality in 1997.
It is part of the statistical microregion of
Salinas and lies 5 km. north of highway BR-251. The distance to Salinas is 56 km.
Neighboring municipalities are:
Taiobeiras
Taiobeiras is a municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. As of 2020 the population was 34,397 in an area of 1,194 km2. The elevation of the municipal seat is 821 meters. It became a municipality in 1953. The posta ...
,
Berizal,
Águas Vermelhas, and
Santa Cruz de Salinas
Santa Cruz de Salinas is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2020 was 4,107 inhabitants in a total area of 587 km².
Santa Cruz de Salinas belongs to the Salinas statistical microregio ...
.
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 (11,000 head in 2006) and farming with modest production of coffee, oranges, beans, manioc, sugarcane, and corn. In 2006 there were 365 rural producers in a total area of 24,691 hectares. Cropland made up 1,000 hectares. There were only 25 tractors. In the urban area there were no financial institutions . There were 149 automobiles (2007), giving a ratio of about one automobile for every 46 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: .597 (2000)
*State ranking: 839 out of 853 municipalities
*National ranking: 4,715 out of 5,138 municipalities
*Life expectancy: 59
*Literacy rate: 67
*Combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrollment ratio: .758
*Per capita income (monthly): R$85.29 (''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. 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 . At last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities so this might have changed at the time of this writing. Se
Frigoletto
See also
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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
External links
IBGE
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Municipalities in Minas Gerais