Malacacheta

Neighboring municipalities are: Setubinha, Novo Cruzeiro, Ladainha, Poté, Franciscópolis and Água Boa.

The main cash crop was coffee while sugarcane, beans and corn were grown on a small scale.

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.

On the farm of São João da Mata in the hamlet, Catulé, which is a part of the municipality of Malacacheta, four pre-schoolers were hanged at their feet by members of a religious sect, the Adventist Church of the Promise, and killed with a cane.