Santa Juliana

Santa Juliana is a Brazilian municipality located in the west of the state of Minas Gerais.

[1] The city belongs to the meso-region of Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba and to the micro-region of Araxá.

In the midst of incomplete reports, the village emerged with the passage of the bandeirantes through the locality, where they found the Ribeirão and, in its vicinity, a humble family hovel, whose wife had the name of Juliana and the nickname of Santa (Saint).

Around 1842, the construction of the Chapel of Nossa Senhora das Dores took place, and due to the excellence of the land, which admirably lends itself to agriculture, the locality developed rapidly.

The city center of Santa Juliana is located at an elevation of 907 meters, in the Rio das Velhas valley.

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.