Novorizonte is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazil

Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

ian 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...

. Its population in 2007 was 4,899 inhabitants in a total area of 264 km².

Novorizonte belongs to the 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:...

 statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 920 meters. It became a municipality in 1997. This municipality is located to the northwest of Salinas on MG-342. The closest population center with a hospital and banking facilities is Salinas, a distance of about 20 km.

The main economic activities are cattle raising and farming. There is still some mining of semi-precious stones. The GDP was R$12,324,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies in 2006. In the rural area there were 439 farms with around 1,400 people involved in the agricultural sector. There were 6 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 70 farms. The main crops were bananas, coffee, citrus fruits, mangoes, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there were 5 health clinics. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index

Human Development Index

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 was 0.648. This ranked Rubelita 747 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

• Statistics from IBGE

See also

• List of municipalities in Minas Gerais