São João Batista do Glória is a Brazilian

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

located in the southwest of the

state State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

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 as of 2020 was 7,498 people living in a total area of 553 km². The city belongs to the meso-region of Sul e Sudoeste de Minas and to the micro-region of Passos. It became a municipality in 1948.

Geography

The city center of São João Batista do Glória is located at an elevation of 695 meters in the valley of the Rio Grande, a short distance northeast of regional center, Passos. Neighboring municipalities are: Vargem Bonita (77 km north), Capitólio (65 km east), São José da Barra (40 km southeast), Alpinópolis (33 km south), Passos (14 km south and southwest), Delfinópolis (70 km west). The terrain is hilly and there are many waterfalls in the streams. In the higher elevations there are still

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, guará wolves,

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, and

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. Distances *

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: 315 km * Passos: 14 km on MG-146 *Furnas Dam: 18 km

Economic activities

Services, industries, and agriculture are the main economic activities. There are brickworks and factories producing spirits. The GDP in 2005 was approximately R$449 million, with 82 million reais from taxes, 37 million reais from services, 301 million reais from industry, and 32 million reais from agriculture. The biggest employer was public administration with 410 workers in 2005. In the rural area there were 236 producers on 26,000 hectares of land. Approximately 600 persons were occupied in agriculture. The main crops are coffee, beans, and corn. There were 25,000 head of cattle, of which 9,000 were milk cows (2006). There were no banks (2007). In the vehicle fleet there were 787 automobiles, 69 trucks, 66 pickup trucks, 10 buses, and 663 motorcycles (2007).

Health and education

In the health sector there were 5 health clinics and 1 hospital with 25 beds (2005). Educational needs of 1,550 students were attended to by 3 primary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 pre-primary school. *Municipal

Human Development Index The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, Education Index, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income i ...

: 0.770 (2000) *State ranking: 165 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000 *National ranking: 1321 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000 *Literacy rate: 86% *Life expectancy: 73 (average of males and females) In 2000 the per capita monthly income of R$240.00 was below the state average of R$276.00 and below the national average of R$297.00.

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had the highest per capita monthly income in 2000 with R$435.00. 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 R$73.00. The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was

with 0.841, while the lowest was

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.Frigoletto
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