Santo Antônio do Retiro - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Santo Antônio do Retiro is a city 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...

. In 2007 its population was estimated to be 6,817 in a total area of 797 km².

The city belongs to the mesoregion of 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 to the 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:...

. The elevation of the municipal seat is 815 meters. It became a municipality in 1997. This municipality is located between Rio Pardo de Minas

Rio Pardo de Minas

Rio Pardo de Minas is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 28,633 inhabitants in a total area of 3,119 km².-Important facts and Distances:...

and Espinosa

Espinosa

Espinosa is a municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As of 2007 the population was 31,322 in a total area of 1,876 km². The elevation is 572 meters....

on the upper reaches of the Rio Pardo. The distance to the state capital was 680 km.

Municipal boundaries are with: Espinosa

Espinosa

Espinosa is a municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As of 2007 the population was 31,322 in a total area of 1,876 km². The elevation is 572 meters....

, Monte Azul

Monte Azul

Monte Azul is a municipality in the north of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The population in 2007 was 23,477 in an area of 992 km². The elevation is 582 meters. It became a municipality in 1878. The postal code is 39500-000....

, Mato Verde

Mato Verde

Mato Verde is a city and municipality located in the north of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It was founded in 1953. The population was 12,664 as of 2007 and the area was 664 km². The elevation of the city is 541 metres. The postal code is 39527-000.Mato Verde is part of the...

, Rio Pardo de Minas

Rio Pardo de Minas

and Montezuma

Montezuma, Minas Gerais

Montezuma is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. 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....

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The main economic activities are cattle raising and farming. The GDP was R$16,388,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies in 2006. There were 104 automobiles in 2007, a ratio of one for every 68 people. In the rural area there were 777 farms (2006) with around 2,800 people involved in the agricultural sector. There were 10 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 77 farms. The main crops were coffee, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there were 5 health clinics and no hospital. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index

Human Development Index

The 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...

was 0.602. This ranked Santo Antônio do Retiro 833 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.

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