Água Boa is a city in 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 2004 its population was estimated to be 18,834.

The city of Água Boa is around 380 km from the state capital Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...

and the principal economic activity is the growing of cereal crops, the most important being corn, and livestock production where the soil is favorable for free-range cattle .