Carandaí
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Carandaí is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais
. The population in 2007 22,240 people in a total area of 486 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Campo das Vertentes and to the microregion of Barbacena
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Carandaí lies on the important BR-040 highway, 35 km. north of Barbacena. The main economic activities are services, cattle raising, milk and cheese production, small transformation industries, and the growing of flowers, fruits, vegetables, corn, coffee, potatoes, and beans. In 2005 there were 3 financial institutions. In the health sector there were 12 clinics and one hospital with 51 beds (2005). In the educational sector there were 23 primary schools and 3 middle schools. There were 2 campuses of private institutions of higher learning with 168 students in 2005.
Municipal Human Development Index
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...
. The population in 2007 22,240 people in a total area of 486 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Campo das Vertentes and to the microregion of Barbacena
Barbacena
Barbacena is a city and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As of 2006, the municipality had 124,601 inhabitants. The total area of the municipality is 788 km²....
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Carandaí lies on the important BR-040 highway, 35 km. north of Barbacena. The main economic activities are services, cattle raising, milk and cheese production, small transformation industries, and the growing of flowers, fruits, vegetables, corn, coffee, potatoes, and beans. In 2005 there were 3 financial institutions. In the health sector there were 12 clinics and one hospital with 51 beds (2005). In the educational sector there were 23 primary schools and 3 middle schools. There were 2 campuses of private institutions of higher learning with 168 students in 2005.
Municipal Human Development Index
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...
- MHDI: .760
- Ranking in the state: 209 out of 853 municipalities
- Ranking in the country: 1,588 out of 5,138 municipalities
- Life expectancy: 72 (2000)
- Literacy rate: 90 (2000) See Frigoletto