Palmópolis is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazil

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 7,041 inhabitants in a total area of 436 km².

Palmópolis belongs to the Almenara

Almenara, Minas Gerais

Almenara is a city in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Situated on the Jequitinhonha River it is the largest town in that river valley. Its 2007 population was estimated at 36,907 and the municipal area was 2,301 km²....

 statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 600 meters. It became a municipality in 1993. This municipality is located on the Braço River, 10 km. west of the state boundary with Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo

Espírito Santo is one of the states of southeastern Brazil, often referred to by the abbreviation "ES". Its capital is Vitória and the largest city is Vila Velha. The name of the state means literally "holy spirit" after the Holy Ghost of Christianity...

.

The main economic activities are cattle raising, and subsistence farming. The GDP was R$20,127,000 (2005). There was 01 banking agency in 2006. There were 95 automobiles in 2007. The main crop was coffee. In the health sector there were 03 health clinics. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index

Human Development Index

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 was 0.615 (medium). This ranked Palmópolis 811 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.

• Degree of urbanization: 50.30% (2000-the national average was 81.75%
• Illiteracy rate: 31.00% (2000--the national average was 13.63)
• Infant mortality rate: 33.33% (2000--the national average was 18.91)
• Life expectancy: 65.4 (average of male and female) (2000)
• Percentage of urban area with sewer connections: 20.70% (2000--the national average was 69.52%)

References

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

See also

• List of municipalities in Minas Gerais