Francisco Dumont

Francisco Dumont is a Brazilian municipality located in the north of the state of Minas Gerais.

Neighboring municipalities are: Claro dos Poções (N) ; Joaquim Felício and Engenheiro Navarro (E); Lassance (S); Várzea da Palma and Jequitaí (W).

[2] Francisco Dumont suffers from periodic drought and poor highway communications.

The highest ranking municipality in Minas Gerais in 2000 was Poços de Caldas with 0.841, while the lowest was Setubinha with 0.568.

In more recent statistics (considering 5,507 municipalities) Manari in the state of Pernambuco has the lowest rating in the country—0,467—putting it in last place.