Neighboring municipalities are: [3] Distances The most important economic activities are cattle raising, royalties from the hydroelectric station on the Rio Grande, commerce, and agriculture.

Fronteira is in the top tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development.

[5] 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.

In the 1940s Maurício Goulart, a businessman from São Paulo, envisioned a project: create a model city in the middle of central Brazil.

Today Fronteira is one of a few planned communities in the region, with wide, tree-lined avenues and with a projected urban infrastructure.