Divisa Alegre
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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...
. As of 2007 the population was 5,793 in a total area of 118 km².
The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinhonha
Jequitinhonha
Jequitinhonha is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais.The population as of 2007 was estimated to be 23,982 people living in a total area of 3,518 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the microregion of Almenara. ...
and to the microregion of Salinas
Salinas, Minas Gerais
Salinas is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 37,370 inhabitants in a total area of 1,897 km².-Important facts and Distances:...
. The elevation of the municipal seat is 975 meters. It became a municipality in 1997 separating from Águas Vermelhas
Águas Vermelhas
Águas Vermelhas is a city in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In 2007 its population was estimated to be 12,674 in a total area of 1,258 km²....
This municipality is located on the important BR-116 highway on the boundary with the state of Bahia
Bahia
Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size...
. The name means "Happy Boundary" in, because of the location on the state boundary.
Municipal boundaries are with: Águas Vermelhas
Águas Vermelhas
Águas Vermelhas is a city in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. In 2007 its population was estimated to be 12,674 in a total area of 1,258 km²....
, Pedra Azul
Pedra Azul
Pedra Azul is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the northeast of the state, in the Jequitinhonha River valley region. The population in 2007 was 24,851 in a total area of 1,619 km²....
, Encruzilhada
Encruzilhada
Encruzilhada is a town and municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil.-References:...
and Cachoeira de Pajeú
Cachoeira de Pajeú
Cachoeira de Pajeú is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 9,089 inhabitants in a total area of 674 km²....
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The main economic activities are cattle raising and farming. The GDP was R$28,807,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies in 2006. In the rural area there were 47 farms with around 150 people involved in the agricultural sector. Only two farms had tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 23 farms. The main crops were coffee, bananas, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there was 1 health clinic. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index
Human Development Index
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was 0.656. This ranked Divisa Alegre 728 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with Poços de Caldas
Poços de Caldas
Poços de Caldas is a city and municipality in south-western Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name. Its estimated population in 2009 was 151,449 inhabitants...
in first place with 0.841 and Setubinha
Setubinha
Setubinha is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 10,834 in a total area of 536 km². The elevation is 729 metres. It is part of the IBGE statistical microregion of Teófilo Otoni...
in last place with 0.568. See Frigoletto for the complete list.
References
See also
- List of municipalities in Minas Gerais