Novo Oriente de Minas
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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 10,327 in a total area of 754 km². The elevation is 400 meters. It became a municipality in 1997. The postal code (CEP) is 39817-000.
Novo Oriente de Minas is part of the statistical microregion of Teófilo Otoni
Teófilo Otoni
Téofilo Otoni is a city in northeast Minas Gerais state, Brazil. The population of the municipality was 126,895 in 2007 and the area is 3,253.4 km².-Origin of the name:...
. It is connected by poor roads to the regional center of Teófilo Otoni to the southwest. The distance is 62 kilometers.
This is one of the poorest municipalities in the state and in the country. The main economic activities are cattle raising (13,000 head in 2006) and farming with modest production of coffee, sugarcane, and bananas. In 2006 there were 300 rural producers with a total area of 32,413 hectares. Cropland made up 1,000 hectares. There were only 5 tractors. In the urban area there were no financial institutions as of 2006. There were 125 automobiles, giving a ratio of about one automobile for every 80 inhabitants. Health care was provided by 4 public health clinics. There were no hospitals.
Municipal Human Development IndexHuman Development IndexThe 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: .582 (2000)
- State ranking: 847 out of 853 municipalities
- National ranking: 4,942 out of 5,138 municipalities
- Life expectancy: 62
- Literacy rate: 57
- Combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrolment ratio: .696
- Per capita income (monthly): R$80.07 For the complete list see Frigoletto
See also
- List of municipalities in Minas Gerais