Santa Helena de Minas
Santa Helena de Minas is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. the population was 6,386 in a total area of . The elevation is . It became a municipality in 1997. Santa Helena de Minas is part of the statistical microregion of Nanuque. This is one of the poorest municipalities in the state and in the country. The main economic activities are cattle raising (7,000 head in 2006) and farming with modest production of bananas, coffee, and corn. In 2006 there were 289 rural producers with a total area of . Cropland made  up . There were only three tractors. In the urban area there were no financial institutions . There were 90 automobiles, giving a ratio of about one automobile for every 65 inhabitants. Health care was provided by four public health clinics. There were no hospitals. "Note that at last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities while Minas Gerais still had 853". Municipal Human Development Index. The above figures can be compared with those of Poços de Caldas, which had an MHDI of .841, the highest in the state of Minas Gerais. The highest MHDI in the country (2000) was São Caetano do Sul  in the state of São Paulo with an MHDI of .919. More up-to-date data from 2004 show that the lowest in that year was Manari in the state of Pernambuco with an MHDI of .467 out of a total of 5504 municipalities in the country as of 2004. At last count Brazil had 5,561 municipalities so this might have changed at the time of this writing.