Novorizonte is a municipality in the northeast of the
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
ian 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 in 2020 was 5,324 inhabitants in a total area of 264 km².
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Novorizonte belongs to the Salinas statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 920 meters. It became a municipality in 1997. This municipality is located to the northwest of Salinas on MG-342. The closest population center with a hospital and banking facilities is Salinas, a distance of about 20 km.
The main economic activities are cattle raising and farming. There is still some mining of semi-precious stones. The GDP was R$12,324,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies in 2006. In the rural area there were 439 farms with around 1,400 people involved in the agricultural sector. There were 6 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 70 farms. The main crops were bananas, coffee, citrus fruits, mangoes, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there were 5 health clinics. The score on the 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 ...
was 0.648. This ranked Rubelita 747 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with Poços de Caldas in first place with 0.841 and 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 ...
in last place with 0.568. Se
Frigoletto
for the complete list.
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
Statistics from IBGE
Municipalities in Minas Gerais
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