São João da Lagoa is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of
Minas Gerais. As of 2020 the population was 4,932 in a total area of 990 km². It became a municipality in 1995.
Location
São João da Lagoa is located at an elevation of 835 meters between the
São Francisco River
The São Francisco River (, ) is a large river in Brazil. With a length of , it is the longest river that runs entirely in Brazilian territory, and the fourth longest in South America and overall in Brazil (after the Amazon, the Paraná and t ...
and
Montes Claros. It is connected by state highway (partially paved) to
Coração de Jesus. It belongs to the statistical microregion of
Montes Claros. Neighboring municipalities are
Coração de Jesus,
Claro dos Poções
Claro dos Poções is a Brazilian municipality located in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. In 2020 the population was 7,514 in a total area of 706 km². It became a municipality in 1962. ,
Ibiaí and
Lagoa dos Patos.
Distances
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Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte (, ; ) is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million and with a metropolitan area of 6 million people. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropol ...
: 479 km.
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Montes Claros: 67 km.
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Coração de Jesus: 24 km.
Economic activities
The most important economic activities are cattle raising, commerce, and
subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...
. The GDP in 2005 was R$ 14,576,000. São João da Lagoa 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 818 establishments employing about 1,500 workers. Only 59 of the farms had tractors. There were 117 automobiles in all of the municipality. There were 28,000 head of cattle in 2006. The crops with a planted area of more than 100 hectares were beans, sugarcane, manioc, and corn.
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Health and education
In the health sector there were 02 clinics and no hospitals. In the educational sector there were 03 primary schools and 01 middle school.Poços de Caldas
Poços de Caldas is a municipality in the south of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name. Its estimated population in 2020 was 168,641 inhabitants. The city is known for its hot springs.
History
Poços was founded in 1 ...
with 0.841, while the lowest was Setubinha with 0.568. Nationally the highest was São Caetano do Sul
São Caetano do Sul (or São Caetano) ('' Saint Cajetan of the South''. ) is a city in São Paulo state in Brazil. It is part of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. The population is 161,957 (2020 est.) in an area of 15.33 km2. It is the ci ...
in São Paulo with 0.919, while the lowest was Setubinha. In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of Pernambuco has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.Frigoletto
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References
See also
* List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
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Municipalities in Minas Gerais