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Salitre is in the middle tier of municipalities in the state with regard to economic and social development. In 2007 there were two banking agencies in the town. There was a modest retail infrastructure serving the surrounding area of cattle and agricultural lands. There were 1,268 automobiles in the municipality, about one for every eight inhabitants.
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Castanho Taques discovered sulfurous waters here and baptized the region "Serra do
Salitre", sulfur being a common ingredient to make gunpowder. The settlement was named Sao Sebastiao da Serra do Salitre. Later, the small town lost a large part of its population when many families moved to build the
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Serra do
Salitre has a large agricultural production especially in coffee, corn and soybeans. In the rural area there were 839 establishments in 2006 occupying 65,000 hectares (planted area: 27,000 ha). About 5,000 persons were dependent on agriculture. 270 of the farms had tractors, a ratio of one
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In the health sector there were five health clinics and one hospital with 16 beds. In the educational sector there were two pre-primary schools, eight primary schools and one middle school. There is a campus of the
Universidade Presidente AntĂ´nio Carlos (UNIPAC) with classes in education.
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in two farms. There were 52,000 head of cattle in 2006. The main crops were coffee (9,700 hectares), corn (4,000 hectares), cotton (300 hectares), beans (2,400 hectares), potatoes (630 hectares) and soybeans (3,800 hectares).
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