Medina belongs to the Pedra Azul statistical microregion. The elevation of the municipal seat is meters. It became a municipality in This municipality is located on the important BR Rio-Bahia highway. The main economic activities are cattle raising, granite extraction, semi-precious stones, and farming. Like many other towns along the BR highway, prostitution is also a source of income for many families, parents who often also grew up selling their bodies for sex, often get their children, mainly daughters, as young as 12 to get paid for sexual acts for motorists.
There were 2 banking agencies in In the rural area there were farms with around 2, people involved in the agricultural sector. There were 27 tractors, a ratio of one tractor for every 30 farms.
The main crops were bananas, coffee, oranges, mangoes, sugarcane, beans, manioc, and corn. In the health sector there were 6 health clinics and 1 hospital with 66 beds. The score on the Municipal Human Development Index was 0.
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