Comercinho is a municipality in the northeast of the

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ian state of

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 in 2020 was 6,774 inhabitants in a total area of 657 km².IBGE 2020
/ref> Comercinho belongs to the Pedra Azul statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 614 meters. It became a municipality in 1942. This municipality is located to the southeast of Salinas on a dirt road that connects Santa Cruz de Salinas to

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. The closest population center with a hospital and banking facilities is

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, a distance of about 36 km. Neighboring municipalities are:

, Salinas, Santa Cruz de Salinas, Rubelita, and

. The main economic activities are cattle raising and farming. The GDP was R$27,441,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies in 2006. In the rural area there were 1,175 farms with around 3,100 people involved in the agricultural sector. There were 22 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 50 farms. The main crops were bananas, coffee, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there were 3 health clinics. The score on the Municipal

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was 0.603. This ranked Comercinho 830 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with

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in first place with 0.841 and

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 ...

in last place with 0.568. Se
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for the complete list.

References

Statistics from IBGE
Municipalities in Minas Gerais {{MinasGerais-geo-stub

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