Santa Maria do Salto 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 5,217 inhabitants in a total area of 442 km
2.
Santa Maria do Salto belongs to the
Almenara statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 220 meters. It became a municipality in 1962. This municipality is located south of the Jequitinhonha River and is bordered by the state of
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 ...
on the east.
Neighboring municipalities are:
Eunápolis
Eunápolis is a municipality in 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, an ...
,
Salto da Divisa, and
Jacinto. There are poor highway connections with Salto da Divisa, 68 km to the northeast, which has paved connections to the important BR-101, 48 km to the east.
The main economic activities are cattle raising, and subsistence farming. The GDP in 2005 was
R$16,530,000. There were no banking agencies listed in 2006. There were 88 automobiles in 2007. The main cash crop was coffee and there was production of bananas and sugarcane. In the health sector there were 02 health clinics and no hospitals. 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 0.633 (medium). This ranked Santa Maria do Salto 784 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.
Frigoletto
for the complete list.
In 2006 there were 201 rural farms with 600 hectares of planted area. Most of the rural area was natural pasture or woodland. Only three of the farms had tractors. There was a cattle herd of 8,000 heads, the cattle being raised mainly for meat.
References
Statistics from IBGE
Citybrazil
{{Municipalities of Minas Gerais
Municipalities in Minas Gerais