Juvenília is a municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais

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...

 in Brazil

Brazil

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. As of 2007 the population was 17,626 in an area of 1,252 km².

• The elevation of the municipal seat is 445 meters.
• It became a municipality in 1962.
• The postal code (CEP) is 39470-000.
• Statistical microregion: Januária
  Januária
  Januária, known as "The Queen of the Beautiful Waters" is a city and municipality in northern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. It is located on the left bank of the São Francisco River...
  
  

Juvenília is located on the Rio Carinhanha, which forms 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...

. It is the most northerly municipality in the state of Minas Gerais and is farther north than Brasília

Brasília

Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. The name is commonly spelled Brasilia in English. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the...

 and Itabuna

Itabuna

Itabuna is a city in Bahia, Brazil. Located around , it's the 6th city in Bahia, after Salvador, Feira de Santana, Vitória da Conquista, Juazeiro and Ilhéus in size of population, with an estimative of 209,211 inhabitants in 2006. The city covers a total area of 443.2 km².Itabuna became a city...

 in the state of Bahia. It is connected to Montalvânia

Montalvânia

Montalvânia is a municipality in the northernmost point of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. As of 2008 the population was 16,265 in an area of 1,484.388 km². The elevation of the municipal seat is 510 meters, the postal code is 39495-000 and it is located in the microregion of Januária-...

 by a dirt road.

The economy is based on agriculture with emphasis on cattle raising. There were 27,000 head in 2006. The main agricultural crops were cotton, rice, corn, manioc, sugarcane, and mamona--castor oil plant. The GDP was R$17,275,000 in 2005.

This municipality is extremely isolated from major population centers and suffers from drought and poor soils. It is one of the poorest in the state and in the country.

• Municipal Human Development Index
  Human Development Index
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  : .625 (2000)
• State ranking: 796 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000
• National ranking: 4,209 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000

(For the complete list see Frigoletto)