Medina is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazil

Brazil

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ian 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...

. Its population in 2007 was 20,667 inhabitants in a total area of 1,440 km².

Medina belongs to the Pedra Azul

Pedra Azul

Pedra Azul is a Brazilian city in the state of Minas Gerais, located in the northeast of the state, in the Jequitinhonha River valley region. The population in 2007 was 24,851 in a total area of 1,619 km²....

 statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 587 meters. It became a municipality in 1938. This municipality is located on the important BR-116 Rio-Bahia highway. It is 65 km. south of the boundary with the state of Bahia

Bahia

Bahia is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast. It is the fourth most populous Brazilian state after São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, and the fifth-largest in size...

. It is 710 km. to the state capital, 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...

.

The main economic activities are cattle raising, granite extraction, semi-precious stones, and farming. The GDP was R$71,218,000 (2005). There were 2 banking agencies in 2006. In the rural area there were 976 farms with around 2,800 people involved in the agricultural sector. There were 27 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 30 farms. The main crops were bananas, coffee, oranges, mangoes, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there were 6 health clinics and 1 hospital with 66 beds. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index

Human Development Index

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 was 0.645 (medium). This ranked Medina 759 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with 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...

 in first place with 0.841 and 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...

 in last place with 0.568. See Frigoletto for the complete list.

• Illiteracy rate: 29.78% (2000)
• Infant mortality rate: 36.52% (2000)
• Life expectancy: 65.6 (average of male and female) (2000)
• Percentage of urban area with sewer connections: 79.70% (2000)

References

• Statistics from IBGE
• Indicadores Minas--info on health and education

See also

• List of municipalities in Minas Gerais