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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 9,561 inhabitants in a total area of 969 km².
Rubim belongs to the Almenara
Almenara, Minas Gerais
Almenara is a city in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Situated on the Jequitinhonha River it is the largest town in that river valley. Its 2007 population was estimated at 36,907 and the municipal area was 2,301 km²....
statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 254 meters. It became a municipality in 1943. This municipality is located in the valley of the Rubim do Sul River, a tributary of the Jequitinhonha River.
Neighboring municipalities are: Almenara
Almenara, Minas Gerais
Almenara is a city in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Situated on the Jequitinhonha River it is the largest town in that river valley. Its 2007 population was estimated at 36,907 and the municipal area was 2,301 km²....
, Jacinto
Jacinto
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, Santa Maria do Salto
Santa Maria do Salto
Santa Maria do Salto is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 5,724 inhabitants in a total area of 442 km²....
, Palmópolis
Palmópolis
Palmópolis is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 7,041 inhabitants in a total area of 436 km²....
, Rio do Prado
Rio do Prado
Rio do Prado is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 4,489 inhabitants in a total area of 479 km²....
, 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 Felisburgo
Felisburgo
Felisburgo is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais.The population as of 2007 was estimated to be 6,687 people living in a total area of 594 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Jequitinhonha and to the microregion of Almenara. Divisópolis is located...
. The distance to Almenara, the regional center, is 36 km. to the northwest, on poor roads.
The main economic activities are cattle raising, and subsistence farming. The GDP was R$31,596,000 (2005). There was 01 banking agency in 2006. There were 216 automobiles in 2007. The main cash crop was coffee. In the health sector there were 06 health clinics and 01 hosptial with 58 beds. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index
Human Development Index
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was 0.625 (medium). This ranked Rubim 797 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.
In 2006 there were 454 rural farms with 500 hectares of planted area. Most of the rural area was natural pasture or woodland. Only 05 of the farms had tractors.
- Illiteracy rate: 32.30%
- Infant mortality rate: 19.23
- Degree of urbanization: 77.94%
- Life expectancy: 61.3 (average of male and female)
- Percentage of urban residences connected to sewage system: 60.40 (All data are from 2000)
References
See also
- List of municipalities in Minas Gerais