Montezuma is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian 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...

. As of 2007 the population was 7,259 in a total area of 1,134 km². The elevation is 850 meters. It became a municipality in 1993.

Montezuma is part of the statistical 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:...

. It is connected by poor roads to the regional center of Espinosa to the northwest. It is 17 kilometers south of 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...

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This is one of the poorest municipalities in the state and in the country. The main economic activities are cattle raising (7,000 head in 2006) and farming with modest production of sugarcane, corn, and rice. In 2006 there were 1,058 rural producers with a total area of 32,633 hectares. Cropland made up 2,800 hectares. There were only 18 tractors. In the urban area there were no financial institutions as of 2006. There were 116 automobiles, giving a ratio of about one automobile for every 62 inhabitants. Health care was provided by 3 public health clinics. There were no hospitals.

Municipal Human Development Index

Human Development Index

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• MHDI: .589 (2000)
• State ranking: 843 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000
• National ranking: 4,853 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000
• Life expectancy: 59
• Literacy rate: 67
• Combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio: .707
• Per capita income (monthly): R$83.44 (For the complete list see Frigoletto)

Note that at last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities while Minas Gerais still had 853.

The above figures can be compared with those of 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...

, which had an MHDI of .841, the highest in 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...

. The highest in the country was São Caetano do Sul

São Caetano do Sul

São Caetano do Sul is a city in São Paulo state in Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Area. It is the city with the highest per capita income in Brazil and it also has the highest Human Development Index .-Geography:São Caetano do Sul is located on a plateau that is part of the...

 in the state of São Paulo

São Paulo

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 with an MHDI of .919. The lowest was Manari in the state of Pernambuco

Pernambuco

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with an MHDI of .467 out of a total of 5504 municipalities in the country as of 2004. At last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities so this might have changed at the time of this writing. See Frigoletto