Matias Cardoso

Location o Matias Cardoso in the state o Minas Gerais

Matias Cardoso is a municipality in the north o the state o Minas Gerais in Brazil.

Location

Matias Cardoso is locatit on the richt bank o the São Francisco River. It is 10 km. sooth o Manga an is 72 km. northwast o Jaíba. As o 2007 the population wis 10,270 in a aurie o 1,938 km².

• The elevation o the municipal seat is 472 meters.
• It became a municipality in 1993
• The postal code (CEP) is 39478-000
• Statistical microregion: Januária

The municipality conteens the 6,358 hectare (15,710 acre) Jaíba Biological Reserve, a fully protectit conservation unit creatit in 1994.

Economy

The economy is based on agricultur wi emphasis on cattle raisin. Thare wur 46,000 heid in 2006. The main agricultural crops wur cotton, peanuts, corn, manioc, sorghum, succarcane, an mamona--castor ile plant. The GDP wis R$37,034,000 in 2005.

Halth

This municipality is extremely isolatit frae major population centers an suffers frae drocht an poor soils. It is ane o the poorest in the state an in the kintra.

• Municipal Human Development Index: .602 (2000)
• State rankin: 831 oot o 853 municipalities as o 2000
• Naitional rankin: 4,618 oot o 5,138 municipalities as o 2000

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• Illeeteracy rate: 32.51% (aulder than 16)--the rate for the state wis 11.96% (2000)
• Infant mortality rate: 12.20--the rate for the state wis 17.40 (2000)
• Urbanisation rate: 43%--the rate for the state wis 80% (2000)
• Urban aurie connectit tae sewers: 2.4%--the state percentage wis 81.39% (2000)
• Urban aurie wi garbage collection: 34.06%--the state percentage wis 91.37 (2000)
• Halth clinics: 4

References

• IBGE
• CARDOSO.pdf