Japonvar 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 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 ...

. In 2020 the population was 7,982 in a total area of 376 km². It became a municipality in 1997.IBGE

Geography

Japonvar is located on BR-135 which connects

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and

Januária Januária is a municipality in northern Minas Gerais state, Brazil. It is located on the left bank of the São Francisco River. The population was 67,852 inhabitants (IBGE 2020) and the area of the municipality was 6,691 km2 (2007). Muni ...

. The elevation of the municipal seat is 700 meters. Japonvar is part of the statistical microregion of

. Neighboring municipalities are:

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São João da Ponte São João da Ponte is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2020, the population numbered 25,098 within the total area of 1,849 km². The elevation is 561 meters. It became a muni ...

, Patis, Brasília de Minas, and São Francisco.

Economy

The most important economic activities are cattle raising, commerce, and

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops on smallholdings to meet the needs of themselves and their families. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements. Planting decisions occu ...

. The GDP in 2005 was R$ 19,043,000. Japonvar is in the bottom tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. It suffers from isolation, poor soils, and periodic drought. As of 2007, there were no banking agencies in the town. There was a small retail commerce serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. In the rural area, there were 646 establishments employing about 1,700 workers. Only 04 of the farms had tractors. There were 80 automobiles in all of the municipalities. There were 8,700 head of cattle in 2006. The crops with a planted area of more than 100 hectares were beans, sugarcane, manioc, and corn.

Health and education

*Municipal

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: 0.618 (2000) *State ranking: 807 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000 *National ranking: 4,339 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000 *Literacy rate: 66% *Life expectancy: 66 (average of males and females) *

Urbanization Urbanization (or urbanisation in British English) is the population shift from Rural area, rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change. ...

rate: 31.73 (2000) *Percentage of urban houses served by sewage system: 98.10 *Infant mortality rate: n/a The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was

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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.Frigoletto
In the health sector, there were 06 clinics and no hospitals. In the educational sector, there were 08 primary schools and 01 middle school.

Origin of the name

The name Japonvar came about because the settlement began at the junction of three rural roads, which led to Januária, São João da Ponte, and Varzelândia.

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