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| Belo Horizonte |
Population : 5,156,217 (3rd).
Area: 9,460 km2 (3,652 sq mi).
Location: Belo Horizonte, 000, Brazil.
Belo Horizonte is the sixth largest city in
Brazil, the thirteenth largest city in South America and the sixteenth largest
city in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Belo Horizonte
metropolitan area, ranked as the third most populous metropolitan area in
Brazil, the nineteenth most populous in the Americas and the forty-second
largest in the world. Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Minas
Gerais, Brazil's second most populous state.
The region was first settled in the early
18th century, but the city as it is known today was planned and constructed in
the 1890s, in order to replace Ouro Preto as the capital of Minas Gerais. The
city features a mixture of contemporary and classical buildings, and is home to
several modern Brazilian architectural icons, most notably the Pampulha
Complex. In planning the city, Aarão Reis and Francisco Bicalho sought
inspiration in the urban planning of Washington, D.C. The city has employed
notable programs in urban revitalization and food security, for which it has
been awarded international accolades.
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| Belo Horizonte |
The city is built on several hills and is
completely surrounded by mountains. There are several large parks in the
immediate surroundings of Belo Horizonte. The Mangabeiras Park (Parque das
Mangabeiras), located 6 km (4 mi) south-east from the city centre in the hills
of Curral Ridge (Serra do Curral), has a very broad view of the city. It has an
area of 2.35 km2 (580 acres), of which 0.9 km2 (220 acres) is covered by the
native forest. The Jambeiro Woods (Mata do Jambeiro) nature reserve extends
over 912 hectares (2,250 acres), with vegetation typical of the Atlantic
forest. More than one hundred species of birds inhabit the reserve, as well as
ten different species of mammals.
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View of Belo Horizonte
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