Águas Formosas is a Brazilian

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

located in the north-east of the

state State most commonly refers to: * State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory **Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country **Nation state, a ...

Minas Gerais Minas Gerais () is one of the 27 federative units of Brazil, being the fourth largest state by area and the second largest in number of inhabitants with a population of 20,539,989 according to the 2022 Brazilian census, 2022 census. Located in ...

. Its population as of 2020 was 19,247 living in a total area of 817 km². The city belongs to the statistical mesoregion of Vale do Mucuri and to the statistical

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Nanuque Nanuque is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, in the southeastern region of Brazil, belonging to Mucuri Valley and the Nanuque region. The relief consists of inselbergs and seas of hills, and the Serra dos Aimorés as predominant charac ...

. It became a municipality in 1938. IBGE
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Geography

Águas Formosas is located at an elevation of 273 meters in the Rio Pampã valley. It is east of the important federal highway BR-116 to which it is connected by state highways MG-105 and 409. The nearest major population center is

Teófilo Otoni Teófilo Otoni is a municipality in northeast Minas Gerais, Brazil. The population of the municipality was 140,937 in 2020 and the area is 3,242.818 km2. Origin of the name The city is named after (Vila do Príncipe, 27 January 1807 - Rio d ...

. The distance to

is 158 km; and the distance to state capital

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is 613 km. Neighboring municipalities are: Fronteira dos Vales (N); Machacalis (E);

Crisólita Crisólita is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. the population was 6,760 in a total area of 970 km². The elevation is 282 meters. It is part of the IBGE statistical microregion of Nanuque. The ...

(S); and

Novo Oriente de Minas Novo Oriente de Minas is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. the population was 10,778 in a total area of . The elevation is . It became a municipality in 1997. Geography Novo Oriente de Minas is part of th ...

(W). Citybrazil
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Economy

The main economic activities are services, and agriculture. The GDP in 2005 was R$60 million, with 41 million from services, 6 million from industry, and 9 million from agriculture. There were 866 rural producers on 57,000 hectares of land. Only 17 farms had tractors (2006). 2,500 persons were dependent on agriculture. The main crops were sugarcane, beans, and corn. There were 55,000 head of cattle (2006). There were 2 banks (2007) and 681 automobiles (508 motorcycles), giving a ratio of 28 inhabitants per automobile.

Municipal social indicators

The social indicators rank it in the bottom tier of municipalities in the state. *Municipal

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: 0.639 (2000) *State ranking: 770 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000 *National ranking: 3,948 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000 *Literacy rate: 68% *Life expectancy: 63 (average of males and females)Frigoletto
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with 0.841, while the lowest was

Setubinha Setubinha is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020 the population was 12,378 in a total area of 536 km². The elevation is 729 metres. It is part of the Immediate Geographic Region of Teófilo O ...

with 0.568. Nationally the highest was

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in São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha. In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of

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has the lowest rating in the country--0,467--putting it in last place.

Health and education

There were 6 health clinics and one private hospital with 87 beds in 2005. Patients with more serious health conditions are transported to Teófilo Otoni. Educational needs were met by 31 primary schools, 2 middle schools, and 5 pre-primary schools.

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