São José do Belmonte
# São José do Belmonte

São José do Belmonte is a city and municipality in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2020, according with IBGE was 34,021 inhabitants and the total area is 1474.09 km².

## Geography

* State - Pernambuco
* Region - Sertão Pernambucano
* Boundaries - Paraiba and Ceará states (N); Mirandiba (S); Serra Talhada (E); Verdejante (W)
* Area - 1479.96 km²
* Elevation - 486 m
* Hydrography - Pajeú River
* Vegetation - Caatinga hiperxerófila
* Climate - semi arid - (Sertão)
* Annual average temperature - 25.4 c
* Distance to Recife - 470 km

The municipality is currently divided into two districts (as of 1988), São José do Belmonte, and Bom Nome.

## Economy

The main economic activities in São José do Belmonte are based on industry, commerce and agribusiness, especially farming of goats, cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, chickens; and plantations of manioc, beans and tomatoes.

### Economic Indicators

| Population | GDP x(1000 R$). | GDP pc (R$) | PE |
| - | - | - | - |
| 34.118 | 97.342 | 2.976 | 0.17% |

Economy by Sector 2006

| Primary sector | Secondary sector | Service sector |
| - | - | - |
| 15.19% | 15.76% | 69.05% |

### Health Indicators

| HDI (2000) | Hospitals (2007) | Hospitals beds (2007) | Children's Mortality every 1000 (2005) |
| - | - | - | - |
| 0.635 | 2 | 76 | 19.9 |
