The relief consists of inselbergs and seas of hills, and the Serra dos Aimorés as predominant characteristic.

It lies in a corner of Minas Gerais with the boundary lines of Bahia to the north and east, and that of Espírito Santo to the south.

Nanuque is a statistical micro-region with 10 municipalities: Águas Formosas, Bertópolis, Carlos Chagas, Crisólita, Fronteira dos Vales, Machacalis, Nanuque, Santa Helena de Minas, Serra dos Aimorés, and Umburatiba.

[2] The economy is based on cattle raising, small industries, services, and agriculture, with the main crops being beans, sugarcane (2,128 ha.

[4] Nanuque is a tourist town belonging to the Gemstones circuit, characterized by its high mountains of the Sierra Aimorés.

[citation needed] Among the natural attractions are the Serra dos Aimorés, where can be seen the boundaries of three states rising in Fritz's Stone, which is 25 km from the center of Nanuque and is about a thousand meters high, one of the biggest points of mountaineering northeast of Minas Gerais.

The above figures can be compared with those of Poços de Caldas, which had an MHDI of .841, the highest in the state of Minas Gerais.