TEOFILO OTONI

city, east central Minas Gerais state, Brazil, on the Rio Todos os Santos in the Rio Mucuri Valley, at 1,047 ft (319 m) above sea level. It was given city status in 1878. Tefilo Otoni is a trade centre for an agricultural hinterland in which coffee is the principal crop. Livestock raising is also of some importance, and the city has manufacturing and food-processing plants. Extensive mining and gem trading for aquamarines, topaz, brazilianite, and various forms of quartz take place there. It is situated on the RioBahia Interstate Highway and is accessible by rail from Rio de Janeiro and from Belo Horizonte, the state capital, 413 mi (664 km) southwest. Pop. (1980 prelim.) 83,108.