Felixlândia is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ...

. Its population was 15,433 living in a total area of . The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of

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and to the statistical

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Curvelo Curvelo is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is located in the geodesic centre of Minas Gerais, 170 km north of the capital, Belo Horizonte, and connected to the capital by highways MG 135 and B ...

. It became a municipality in 1948.IBGE

Geography

Felixlândia is located at an elevation of 608 metres on highway BR-040 (Rio-Brasília) between Tres Marias and

Sete Lagoas Sete Lagoas (meaning 'Seven Lagoons' in Portuguese) is a city in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The municipal area is 537;km2 while the population was 241,835 in 2020. Geography Location Sete Lagoas is situated about 70 kilometres from Be ...

. It forms a boundary on the west with the Tres Marias Reservoir. The nearest major population centre is

. The name of the municipality is a tribute to Father Felix Ferreira da Rocha, who donated land for the construction of a chapel for Nossa Senhora da Piedade, the patron saint of the town. An annual festival is given in her honor every August. The distance to

is 45 km; and the distance to the state capital,

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, is 196 km. Neighboring municipalities are:

, Pompéu, Morro da Garça,

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, Corinto, and

Três Marias Três Marias is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwestern part of the state of Minas Gerais. In 2020 the population was 32,716 in a total area of 2,763 km2. Geography Três Marias is located at the north end of one of the lar ...

Economy

The main economic activities are services, small industries, and agriculture. The production of charcoal from eucalyptus plantations is also important. The GDP in 2005 was R$70 million, with 38 million from services, 9 million from industry, and 19 million from agriculture. There were 691 rural producers on 105,000 hectares of land. Only 116 farms had tractors (2006). Approximately 2,200 persons were dependent on agriculture. The main crops were rice, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. There were 53,000 head of cattle (2006). There was 1 bank (2007) and 1,049 automobiles (542 motorcycles), giving a ratio of 13 inhabitants per automobile. There were 7 health clinics and 1 hospital with 20 beds in 2005. Patients with more serious health conditions are transported to Belo Horizonte or Curvelo. Educational needs were met by 10 primary schools, 2 middle schools, and 8 pre-primary schools. *Municipal

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: 0.730 (2000) *State ranking: 424 out of 853 municipalities *National ranking: 2,436 out of 5,138 municipalities *Literacy rate: 84% *Life expectancy: 70 (average of males and females)Frigoletto
/ref> In 2000 the per capita income of R$150.00 was well below the state and national average of R$276.00 and R$297.00 respectively. The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was

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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 Immediate Geographic Region of Teófilo O ...

with 0.568. Nationally the highest was

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in São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha. In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of

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has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place. The municipality contained the Colônia 31 de Março Biological Reserve. An audit in 2012 stated that a number of biological reserves created in 1974 on state-owned land no longer qualified as conservation units. These included Carmo da Mata, Colônia 31 de Março and others.

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