for the cities of Barra de São Francisco, Colatina, Vitoria, Governador Valadares, Belo Horizonte, Porto Velho, São Paulo and other small municipalities in the region. It also has a runway for landings and take-offs on the highway. connects the municipality to Barra de São Francisco, located right on the border of the states of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo. Climate The climate of Mantena is hot and humid with mild temperature in the winter and considerable variations during the day, according to IBGE statistics. The maximum rainfall coincides with summer. Its dry period in the winter ranges from 1 to 3 months and the xerothermic index of the region ranges from 25.47 °C to 11.26 °C. The city was devastated in December 2013 by large amounts of rainfall that caused floods and incalculable damage to the local economy, the city took months to be cleaned due to the large amount of clay and debris that remained in the streets and gradually reestablishing causing serious administrative damages to the municipality the following year. The city has been punished in recent summers for temperatures that have risen from 46 °C, lived a period of drought from 2014 until the end of 2017 with great destruction of the local pastures by the strong sun and little rain, affecting the agribusiness and local livestock, taking many ranchers as alternative EMBRAPA programs like the Full Bucket Project. Relief Its relief is characterized by the presence of small mountains, rising gradually towards the interior, formed by pre-Cambrian crystalline rocks. Vegetation The vegetation diversifies in the region of the ecological sub domain, presents in the Mantena area the transition between hydrophilic coastal forests and the tropical deciduous forest. Not finding large forest reserves destroyed by man in the extraction of hardwood. In 2018 an outbreak of snake appearances in the city was reported, which frightened the local population, fearing the possible Jararacas snakes and true corals, which entered in homes and frightened the population hunted and killed publishing on social networks. Soil Its soil, predominantly clayey - sandy, tends to concentrate salts in the superficial horizon, which is used by livestock. Hydrography Mantena has a small hydrographic basin, started with the streams of the cloudy and cold stream started 6 km from the neighborhood of Vila Nova, join and form the São Francisco stream, the same permeates the entire district of the Vila Nova neighborhood, traveling from