Biquinhas is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais is one of the 26 states of Brazil, of which it is the second most populous, the third richest, and the fourth largest in area. Minas Gerais is the Brazilian state with the largest number of Presidents of Brazil, the current one, Dilma Rousseff, being one of them. The capital is the...

. As of 2007 the population was 2,592 in a total area of 457 km². It became a municipality in 1962.

Location

Biquinhas belongs to the statistical micro-region of Três Marias

Três Marias

Três Marias is a small Brazilian city in northwestern Minas Gerais. In 2007 the population was 26,431 in a total area of 2,763 km².-Climate:...

. It is located at an elevation of 629 meters between the Indaiá River and the reservoir of Três Marias. Neighboring municipalities are:

• North and East: Morada Nova de Minas
  Morada Nova de Minas
  Morada Nova de Minas is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 8,297 in a total area of 2,085 km². It became a municipality in 1943.-Location:...
  
  
• West: Tiros
  Tiros
  Tiros is a Brazilian municipality located in the northwest of the state of Minas Gerais. Its population as of 2007 was 7,416 people living in a total area of 2,093 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion of Triângulo Mineiro e Alto Paranaíba and to the microregion of Patos de Minas...
  
  
• South: Paineiras
  Paineiras
  Paineiras is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 4,594 in a total area of 638 km². It became a municipality in 1962.-Location:...
  
  

Distances

• Três Marias
  Três Marias
  Três Marias is a small Brazilian city in northwestern Minas Gerais. In 2007 the population was 26,431 in a total area of 2,763 km².-Climate:...
  
  : 92 km
• Abaeté
  Abaeté
  Abaeté is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 22,474 in a total area of 1,816 km². It became a municipality in 1870.-Location:...
  
  : 44 km
• Belo Horizonte
  Belo Horizonte
  Belo Horizonte is the capital of and largest city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the southeastern region of Brazil. It is the third largest metropolitan area in the country...
  
  : 268

Connections to the north are made on MG-415 to Morada Nova de Minas; to the south on MG-060 to Abaeté

Abaeté

Abaeté is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 22,474 in a total area of 1,816 km². It became a municipality in 1870.-Location:...

.

Economic activities

The most important economic activities are cattle raising, commerce, and agriculture. The GDP in 2005 was R$ R$17 million of which most came from services and agriculture. Biquinhas is in the middle tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. As of 2007 there were no banking agencies in the town. There was a small retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. There were 404 automobiles in all of the municipality (2007), about one for every 6 inhabitants.

In the rural area there were 466 establishments occupying 40,000 hectares. About 900 persons were employed in agriculture. 42 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one in ten farms. There were 20,000 head of cattle in 2006. In permanent crops there were 72 ha. planted, while in perennial crops 1,400 ha. were planted (2006). The crops with a planted area of more than 100 hectares were rice, sugarcane and corn.

Health and education

In the health sector there was 03 health clinics. In the educational sector there were 02 primary schools and 01 middle school.

• Municipal Human Development Index
  Human Development Index
  The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...
  
  : 0.746 (2000)
• State ranking: 316 out of 853 municipalities as of 2000
• National ranking: 1,992 out of 5,138 municipalities as of 2000
• Literacy rate: 83%
• Life expectancy: 72 (average of males and females)

The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was Poços de Caldas

Poços de Caldas

Poços de Caldas is a city and municipality in south-western Minas Gerais state, Brazil, in the microregion of the same name. Its estimated population in 2009 was 151,449 inhabitants...

 with 0.841, while the lowest was Setubinha

Setubinha

Setubinha is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. As of 2007 the population was 10,834 in a total area of 536 km². The elevation is 729 metres. It is part of the IBGE statistical microregion of Teófilo Otoni...

 with 0.568. Nationally the highest was São Caetano do Sul

São Caetano do Sul

São Caetano do Sul is a city in São Paulo state in Brazil, located in the Greater São Paulo Metropolitan Area. It is the city with the highest per capita income in Brazil and it also has the highest Human Development Index .-Geography:São Caetano do Sul is located on a plateau that is part of the...

 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

Pernambuco

Pernambuco is a state of Brazil, located in the Northeast region of the country. To the north are the states of Paraíba and Ceará, to the west is Piauí, to the south are Alagoas and Bahia, and to the east is the Atlantic Ocean. There are about of beaches, some of the most beautiful in the...

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