Presidente Olegário
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Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
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 18,256 inhabitants in a total area of 3,531 km².
Presidente Olegário belongs to the Paracatu
Paracatu, Minas Gerais
Paracatu is a town in the western part of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil having 79,739 inhabitants . Its area is of 8.232 km²...
statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 947 meters. It became a municipality in 1938. This municipality is located 28 km. northeast of Patos de Minas
Patos de Minas
Patos de Minas is a city and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil, located some 400 km from Belo Horizonte on the Paranaíba River. The city had 133,054 in 2007 while the area of the municipality is 3,189 km²...
. The distance to the 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...
is 433 km.
Neighboring municipalities are: Lagamar
Lagamar
Lagamar is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 7,636 inhabitants in a total area of . It is a large producer of cattle and grains and there is extraction of phosphates....
, Lagoa Grande
Lagoa Grande, Minas Gerais
Lagoa Grande is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 8,660 inhabitants in a total area of 1,220 km²....
, Patos de Minas
Patos de Minas
Patos de Minas is a city and municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil, located some 400 km from Belo Horizonte on the Paranaíba River. The city had 133,054 in 2007 while the area of the municipality is 3,189 km²...
, Varjão de Minas
Varjão de Minas
Varjão de Minas is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 5,993 inhabitants in a total area of 653 km²....
, João Pinheiro and São Gonçalo do Abaeté
São Gonçalo do Abaeté
São Gonçalo do Abaeté is a municipality in the north of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 6,156 inhabitants in a total area of 2,687 km². It is a large producer of cattle and grains....
.
The main economic activities are cattle raising (118,000 head in 2006) and farming. There was also production of charcoal from eucalyptus plantations. This charcoal is transported to the industrial region near 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...
to be used in the steel and iron industry. The GDP was R$169,963,000 (2005). There were 02 banking agencies in 2006. In the rural area there were 1,790 farms with 260,000 hectares of agricultural land, 34,000 hectares of which were planted, 163,000 were in natural pasture, and 48,000 were in woodland or forest. Around 6,500 people were involved in the agricultural sector. There were 439 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 40 farms. The main crops were cotton, rice, sugarcane, beans, tomatoes, soybeans, and corn. In the health sector there were 10 health clinics and 01 hospital with 20 beds. In Patos de Minas, 28 km. away on paved roads there are complete health facilities.
The score on the 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...
was 0.721. This ranked Presidente Olegário 457 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.
External links
- Prefeitura municipal--a professional site with music and a video
See also
- List of municipalities in Minas Gerais