Santa Maria do Salto

Santa Maria do Salto

Santa Maria do Salto is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2007 was 5,724 inhabitants in a total area of 442 km².

Santa Maria do Salto belongs to the Almenara statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is 220 meters. It became a municipality in 1962. This municipality is located south of the Jequitinhonha River and is bordered by the state of Espírito Santo on the east.Neighboring municipalities are: Eunápolis, Salto da Divisa, and Jacinto. There are poor higway connections with Salto da Divisa, 68 km. to the northeast, which has paved connections to the important BR-101, a distance of 48 km. to the east.

The main economic activities are cattle raising, and subsistence farming. The GDP was R$16,530,000 (2005). There were no banking agencies listed in 2006. There were 88 automobiles in 2007. The main cash crop was coffee and there was production of bananas and sugarcane. In the health sector there were 02 health clinics and no hospitals. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index was 0.633 (medium). This ranked Santa Maria do Salto 784 out of 853 municipalities in the state, with Poços de Caldas in first place with 0.841 and Setubinha in last place with 0.568. See [http://www.frigoletto.com.br/GeoEcon/idhmg.htm Frigoletto] for the complete list.

In 2006 there were 201 rural farms with 600 hectares of planted area. Most of the rural area was natural pasture or woodland. Only 03 of the farms had tractors. There was a cattle herd of 8,000 head, the cattle being raised mainly for meat.

References
* [http://www.ibge.gov.br/cidadesat/default.php Statistics from IBGE]
* [http://www.citybrazil.com.br/mg/rubim/ Citybrazil]
* [http://www.frigoletto.com.br/GeoEcon/idhmg.htm Frigoletto]


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