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Curral de Dentro

Municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais

Summary

Municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais

Field	Value
name	Curral de Dentro
settlement_type	Municipality
image_skyline	MinasGerais Municip CurraldeDentro.svg
image_caption	Location of Curral de Dentro in the state of Minas Gerais
pushpin_map	Brazil
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Brazil
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Brazil
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Minas Gerais
established_title	Established
established_date	1997
area_total_km2	571
population_as_of	2020
population_total	7,799
elevation_m	890
timezone	BRT
utc_offset	-3
timezone_DST	BRST
utc_offset_DST	-2
area_code	+55 38

Curral de Dentro is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. the population was 7,799 in a total area of 571 km2. The elevation is 890 meters. It became a municipality in 1997.

It is part of the statistical microregion of Salinas and lies 5 km. north of highway BR-251. The distance to Salinas is 56 km.

Neighboring municipalities are: Taiobeiras, Berizal, Águas Vermelhas, and Santa Cruz de Salinas.

This is one of the poorest municipalities in the state and in the country. Isolation and drought mean that most of the inhabitants live in extreme poverty. The main economic activities are cattle raising (11,000 head in 2006) and farming with modest production of coffee, oranges, beans, manioc, sugarcane, and corn. In 2006 there were 365 rural producers in a total area of 24,691 hectares. Cropland made up 1,000 hectares. There were only 25 tractors. In the urban area there were no financial institutions . There were 149 automobiles (2007), giving a ratio of about one automobile for every 46 inhabitants. Health care was provided by 3 public health clinics. There were no hospitals.

Municipal Human Development Index

MHDI: .597 (2000)
State ranking: 839 out of 853 municipalities
National ranking: 4,715 out of 5,138 municipalities
Life expectancy: 59
Literacy rate: 67
Combined primary, secondary and tertiary gross enrollment ratio: .758
Per capita income (monthly): R$85.29 (For the complete list see Frigoletto) Note that at last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities while Minas Gerais still had 853.

The above figures can be compared with those of Poços de Caldas, which had an MHDI of .841, the highest in the state of Minas Gerais. The highest MHDI in the country (2000) was São Caetano do Sul in the state of São Paulo with an MHDI of .919. More up-to-date data from 2004 show that the lowest in that year was Manari in the state of Pernambuco with an MHDI of .467 out of a total of 5504 municipalities in the country . At last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities so this might have changed at the time of this writing. See Frigoletto

References

[https://cidades.ibge.gov.br/brasil/mg/curral-de-dentro/panorama IBGE 2020]
"Frigoletto".

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