Joaquim Felício

Joaquim Felício is a Brazilian municipality located in the northeast of the state of Minas Gerais.

The settlement began with the arrival of the Estrada de Ferro Central do Brasil in 1921.

Neighboring municipalities are: Bocaiúva, Buenópolis, Engenheiro Navarro, Francisco Dumont and Lassance.

[3] The municipality contains part of the 22,494 hectares (55,580 acres) Serra do Cabral State Park, created in 2005.

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.