Matias Cardoso is locatit on the richt bank o the São Francisco River. It is 10 km. sooth o Manga an is 72 km. northwast o Jaíba.
As o 2007 the population wis 10,270 in a aurie o 1,938 km².
The elevation o the municipal seat is 472 meters.
It became a municipality in 1993
The postal code (CEP) is 39478-000
Statistical microregion: Januária
The municipality conteens the 6,358 hectare (15,710 acre) Jaíba Biological Reserve, a fully protectit conservation unit creatit in 1994.[1]
The economy is based on agricultur wi emphasis on cattle raisin. Thare wur 46,000 heid in 2006. The main agricultural crops wur cotton, peanuts, corn, manioc, sorghum, succarcane, an mamona--castor ile plant. The GDP wis R$37,034,000 in 2005.
This municipality is extremely isolatit frae major population centers an suffers frae drocht an poor soils. It is ane o the poorest in the state an in the kintra.
↑Josefina Ivonete Fagundes (2005), Sistema de Áreas Protegidas - SAP (in Portuguese), IEF - Instituto Estadual de Florestal - MG, archived frae the original on 16 Februar 2017, retrieved 27 Apryle 2016