Machacalis is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast 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 as of 2020 was 7,111 living in a total area of 329 km². The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Vale do Mucuri and to the statistical

microregion Microregion is a designation for territorial entities. Austria *Microregion (Tyrol) Brazil * Microregion (Brazil) Klaus Roth and Ulf Brunnbauer A microregion is a geographic region of a size between that of a community and that of a district.p. ...

of Nanuque. It became a municipality in 1954. Machacalis is located at an elevation of 285 metres, 18 kilometres west of the state boundary with

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 ...

. The nearest major population centre is

Teófilo Otoni Teófilo Otoni is a municipality in northeast Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population of the municipality was 140,937 in 2020 and the area is 3,242.818 km2. Origin of the name The city is named after (Vila do Príncipe, 27 January 1807 - ...

. The population lived mainly in the rural areas. The distance to

is 210 km; and the distance to the state capital, Belo Horizonte, is 636 km. Neighboring municipalities are: Águas Formosas,

Fronteira dos Vales Fronteira dos Vales is a Brazilian municipality located in the north-east of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population was 4,561 living in a total area of . The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Vale do Mucuri and to the statistica ...

, Santa Helena de Minas, Bertópolis, Umburatiba and

Crisólita Crisólita is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. the population was 6,760 in a total area of 970 km². The elevation is 282 meters. It is part of the IBGE statistical microregion of Nanuque. The p ...

. The main economic activities are services, and subsistence agriculture. The GDP in 2005 was R$23 million, with 15 million from services, 1 million from industry, and 5 million from agriculture. There were 308 rural producers on 27,000 hectares of land. Only 11 farms had tractors (2006). 4,000 persons were dependent on agriculture. The main crops were coconuts, sugarcane, beans, and corn. There were 33,000 head of cattle (2006). There was 1 bank (2007) and 270 automobiles (235 motorcycles), giving a ratio of 25 inhabitants per automobile. The social indicators rank it in the bottom tier of municipalities in the state. *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 ...

: 0.637 (2000) *State ranking: 772 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000 *National ranking: 3,980 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000 *Literacy rate: 72% *Life expectancy: 63 (average of males and females) 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. There were 3 health clinics and 1 hospital with 58 beds (2006). Patients with more serious health conditions are transported to Teófilo Otoni. Educational needs were met by 5 primary schools, 1 middle school, and 2 pre-primary schools. IBGE

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