(That census may omit pertinent data, as the population of the city was almost 50,000 before the separation of the districts of São João da Manteninha and Nova Belém, which were elevated to a city and its districts of Divino of Palmeiras, Santa Rita and Vargem Grande, together forming part of its municipality with a population of approximately 20,000 inhabitants.)

The word also refers to a character who plays the king of the Christians and the Moors, in the cavailas of the municipality of Franca, in São Paulo.

This one bought all the patrimony and donated a part for the construction of the town, with only 7 houses, receiving the name of "Bar of the Stream of the Islanders", in homage to the donor.

Eleven years after the creation of the town, the Governor of the State, José de Magalhães Pinto, issued a document (Decree No.

The production of coffee and the extraction of wood, attracted the attention of all, including the people of Espírito Santo, beginning there the sad story of the Contestado.

The city has mostly paved streets and avenues, it does not have municipal bus service, which has already been tried because the idea was a failure, some point out that the reason was the majority of the population already have means of self-transport such as cars, motorcycles and bicycles and did not adapt to the buses that traveled through the main streets of the city, has taxi points for private transport and a bus terminal built in the 80s, with a large area for buses with six platforms for boarding and disembarking passengers being the largest terminal in the microregion of mangrove, but needs reforms and investments in bus lines to increase the flow of people and the municipal collection.

connects the municipality to Barra de São Francisco, located right on the border of the states of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo.

The climate of Mantena is hot and humid with mild temperature in the winter and considerable variations during the day, according to IBGE statistics.

The city was devastated in December 2013 by large amounts of rainfall that caused floods and incalculable damage to the local economy, the city took months to be cleaned due to the large amount of clay and debris that remained in the streets and gradually reestablishing causing serious administrative damages to the municipality the following year.

Its relief is characterized by the presence of small mountains, rising gradually towards the interior, formed by pre-Cambrian crystalline rocks.

Mantena has a small hydrographic basin, started with the streams of the cloudy and cold stream started 6 km from the neighborhood of Vila Nova, join and form the São Francisco stream, the same permeates the entire district of the Vila Nova neighborhood, traveling from the Northwest to South of the city, coming to the Ilhéus Stream which is another small stream with springs near the known Serra Branca de Mantena, forming together the São Francisco River, which runs through the south-facing city to the north-east direction of the city, ending its a route in the city at the Sewage Treatment Station of the SAAE (Autonomous Water and Sewage Service of Mantena) flowing into the São Mateus River already in Capixaba territory, The São Mateus River passes near the Districts of Nazário on the Mineiro side and Café Ralo on the Capixaba side, making a Natural currency between the States 12 km to the North of the urban zone of the city.