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Municipality in Southeast, Brazil
	Belo Horizonte

	Municipality

	
	Município de Belo Horizonte
	Municipality of Belo Horizonte




	From the top, clockwise: Tiradentes Palace in the Administrative City, the seat of the Minas Gerais government; panorama of Avenida Afonso Pena with the Serra do Curral in the background; statue of the Monument to Civilization Mineira, in Rui Barbosa Square, with the Museum of Arts and Crafts; Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, part of the Pampulha Modern Ensemble; Mineirão stadium with the Lake Pampulha in the background and the Alta Vila Tower, on the border with the municipality of Nova Lima

	
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Coat of arms




	Nicknames: 
	BH (pronounced "beagá")
	The Garden City
	Belô





	Location in Minas Gerais

	
Belo Horizonte



Localization in Brazil
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Belo Horizonte



Belo Horizonte (Brazil)
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	Coordinates: 19°55′S 43°56′W / 19.917°S 43.933°W / -19.917; -43.933Coordinates: 
19°55′S 43°56′W / 19.917°S 43.933°W / -19.917; -43.933
	Country	 Brazil
	Region	Southeast
	State	 Minas Gerais
	Founded	December 12, 1897
	Government

	 • Mayor	Alexandre Kalil (PSD)
	Area

	 • Municipality	330.9 km2 (127.8 sq mi)
	 • Urban
	282.3 km2 (109.0 sq mi)
	 • Metro
	9,459.1 km2 (3,652.2 sq mi)
	Elevation[citation needed]
	760 m (2,490 ft)
	Population (2014)

	 • Municipality	2,502,557
	 • Rank	6th
	 • Metro
	5,156,217 (3rd)[1]
	Demonym(s)	Belo-horizontino
	Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
	Postal code	30000-001 a 31999-999

	Area code	+55 31
	Website	www.pbh.gov.br


Belo Horizonte (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɛlu oɾiˈzõtʃi], locally [ˌbɛloɾiˈzõtʃi] (listen);[a] "Beautiful Horizon") is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population around 2.7 million. It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas. The metropolis is anchor to the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area, ranked as the third-most populous metropolitan area in Brazil and the 17th-most populous in the Americas. Belo Horizonte is the capital of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil's second-most populous state. It is the first planned modern city in Brazil.

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, 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.[2] The city has employed notable programs in urban revitalization and food security, for which it has been awarded international accolades.

The city is built on several hills, and is completely surrounded by mountains.[3] There are several large parks in the immediate surroundings of Belo Horizonte. The Mangabeiras Park (Parque das Mangabeiras), 6 km (4 mi) southeast of the city centre in the hills of Curral Ridge (Serra do Curral), has a 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 100 species of birds inhabit the reserve, as well as 10 species of mammals.

Belo Horizonte was one of the host cities of the 1950 and the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Additionally, the city shared as host of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the football tournament during the 2016 Summer Olympics.


Contents


	1 History
	2 Geography
	2.1 Surrounding cities and metropolitan area
	2.2 Geology and geomorphology
	2.3 Parks
	2.4 Climate



	3 Demographics
	3.1 Religion
	3.2 Human development



	4 Economy
	5 Government and politics
	6 Education
	6.1 Educational institutions



	7 Transport
	7.1 Airports
	7.2 Highways
	7.3 Bus system
	7.4 Railways
	7.5 Belo Horizonte Public Transportation statistics



	8 Culture
	8.1 Theatre and dance
	8.2 Music
	8.3 Museums
	8.4 Architecture
	8.5 Food and drink



	9 Sport
	9.1 Football
	9.2 Tennis



	10 Twin towns – sister cities
	11 See also
	12 Notes
	13 References
	14 External links
	14.1 Official
	14.2 Education
	14.3 Photos
	14.4 Architecture
	14.5 Tourism
	14.6 Food security
	14.7 Culture








History[edit]

  
Belo Horizonte plan in 1895



The metropolis was once a small village, founded by João Leite da Silva Ortiz, a bandeirante explorer from São Paulo. The explorer settled in the region in 1701, leaving a gold rush expedition. He then established a farm called "Curral d'el Rey", archaic Portuguese for the "King's Corral", which in modern Portuguese would be spelled Curral do Rei. The farm's wealth and success encouraged people from surrounding places to move into the region, and Curral del Rey became a village surrounded by farms.[4]

Another important factor contributing to the growth of the village was people immigrating from the São Francisco River region, who had to pass through Curral d'el Rey to reach southern parts of Brazil. Travelers usually visited a small wooden chapel, where they prayed for a safe trip, so the chapel was named Capela da Nossa Senhora da Boa Viagem, which means "Chapel of Our Lady of the Good Journey." After the construction of Belo Horizonte, the old baroque chapel was replaced by a neo-gothic church that became the city's cathedral.[5]


  
Founding of the city in 1897



The previous capital of Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto (meaning "black gold", due to dark rocks with gold inside found on the region), originally called "Vila Rica" ("wealthy village"), was a symbol of both the monarchic Brazilian Empire and the period when most of Brazilian income was due to mining. That never pleased the members of the Inconfidência Mineira, republican intellectuals who conspired against the Portuguese dominion of Brazil. In 1889, Brazil became a republic, and it was agreed that a new state capital, in tune with a modern and prosperous Minas Gerais, had to be established.[6]

In 1893, due to the climatic and topographic conditions, Curral Del Rey was selected by Minas Gerais governor Afonso Pena among other cities as the location for the new economic and cultural center of the state, under the new name of Cidade de Minas, or City of Minas.[citation needed]

Aarão Reis, an urbanist from  Pará, was then chosen to design the second planned city of Brazil (the first one is Teresina). Cidade de Minas was inaugurated in 1897, with many unfinished buildings as the Brazilian government set a deadline for its completion. The local government encouraged growth through subsidies. It offered free lots and funding for building houses. An interesting feature of Reis' downtown street plan for Belo Horizonte was the inclusion of a symmetrical array of perpendicular and diagonal streets named after Brazilian states and Brazilian indigenous tribes.[7]


  
Belo Horizonte, 1970s, National Archives of Brazil



In 1906, the name was changed to Belo Horizonte. At that time, the city was experiencing a considerable industrial expansion that increased its commercial and service sectors. From its very beginning, the city's original plan prohibited workers from living inside the urban area, which was defined by Avenida do Contorno (a long avenue that goes around the city's central areas), reserved for government workers (hence the name of the trendy neighbourhood "Funcionários"), and bringing about an accelerated occupation outside the city's area well provided with infrastructure since its very beginning. Obviously, the city's original planners did not count on its ongoing population growth, which proved especially intense in the last 20 years of the 20th century.

In the 1940s, a young Oscar Niemeyer designed the Pampulha Neighbourhood to great acclaim, a commission he got thanks to then-mayor and soon-to-be-president Juscelino Kubitschek. These two men are largely responsible for the wide avenues, large lakes, parks, and jutting skylines that characterize the city today.[8] A 1949 American government film favorably reviewed the planning and building of the city.[9]

Belo Horizonte is fast becoming a regional center of commerce. The Latin American research and development center of Google, situated in Belo Horizonte, was responsible for the management and operation of the former social networking website Orkut. It continues to be a trendsetter in the arts, particularly where music, literature, architecture, and the avant garde are concerned.[10]


Geography[edit]

	See also: List of bairros of Belo Horizonte [pt]


Surrounding cities and metropolitan area[edit]

  
Belo Horizonte from ISS at night



The term "Grande BH" ("Greater Belo Horizonte") denotes any of various definitions for the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte. The legally defined Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte consists of 34 municipalities in total, and a population of around five million inhabitants (as of 2007[update], according to IBGE).[11][12]

The intense process of urbanization that is taking place in the metropolitan region has made some of the political boundaries between municipalities in the region obsolete.

The city is now composed of a relatively contiguous urban area, centred on Belo Horizonte, which extends out into municipalities such as Contagem, Betim, Nova Lima, Raposos, Ribeirão das Neves, Ibirité, Santa Luzia and Sabará, among others.

The municipality is bounded to the north by Vespasiano, to the north east by Santa Luzia, by Sabará to the east, by Nova Lima to the southeast, Brumadinho to the south and Ribeirão das Neves, Contagem and Ibirité to the west.


Geology and geomorphology[edit]

  
Praça da Liberdade (Liberty Square) and Downtown Belo Horizonte



Belo Horizonte lies on a region of contact between different geological series of the Proterozoic. The geology largely comprises crystalline rocks, which give rise to the varied morphology of the landscape. It is located in a large geological unit known as the craton of San Francisco, referring to extensive crustal nucleus of central-eastern Brazil, tectonically stable at the end of the Paleoproterozoic and bordering areas that suffered the regeneration at the Neoproterozoic.

The archean rocks members of Belo Horizonte complex and supracrustal sequences of the Paleoproterozoic is predominant. The area of Belo Horizonte complex includes the geomorphological unit called Depression of Belo Horizonte, which represents about 70% of the municipality area and has its greatest expression in the northern Ribeirão Arrudas (Rues Stream) pipeline. The metasedimentary rocks has its area of occurrence on the south of Ribeirão Arrudas pipeline, constituting about 30% of the area of Belo Horizonte. The characteristics of this area are lithological diversities and rugged topography, which has its maximum expression in the Serra do Curral (Corral Ridge), the southern boundary of the municipality.

Its soil comprises a succession of layers of rocks of varied composition, represented by itabirite, dolomite, quartzite, phyllites and schists different from the general direction northwest–southeast and dip to the southeast. The hills of Belo Horizonte are part of the Espinhaço Mountains and belong to the larger Itacolomi mountain chain. The highest point in the municipality is in the Serra do Curral, reaching 1,538 metres (5,046 ft).


Parks[edit]

  
Serra do Rola-Moça State Park



A centre for conservation and preservation of animals and plants it has also developed environmental education projects. The Zoo, which encompasses a total area of 1.4 million square meters, is located at the Foundation's headquarters and is regarded as one of the most complete in Latin America. It has a collection of close to 900 animals representing 200 species, from Brazil and other parts of the world, as well as the first public butterfly sanctuary in South America.

Pampulha Ecological Park is administered by the Zoo-Botanical Foundation of Belo Horizonte and was inaugurated on May 21, 2004. It is 30 acres (12 ha) of green area that offers to the population and the tourists a permanent programming of environmental, cultural and patrimonial education.

The city contains the 102 hectares (250 acres) Baleia State Park, created in 1988 but still not implemented as of 2014.[13]
It contains part of the 3,941 hectares (9,740 acres) Serra do Rola-Moça State Park, created in 1994.[14]



 
Panorama of the Lake Pampulha along with its main touristic complex



Climate[edit]

Further information: Climate of Brazil

  
Storm over the city



Belo Horizonte's latitude at 19'55"South places it in the tropical zone. Yearly temperatures average between 9 and 35 °C (48 and 95 °F). The Köppen climate classification of the region is tropical savanna climate (Aw), milder due to the elevation, with humid/warm summers and dry/mild winters. Belo Horizonte is located about 500 kilometres (310 mi) from the sea.

Even though inter-seasonal differences are not as pronounced as they are in temperate places, there is a contrast between spring and summer, and between fall and winter. The coldest month is generally July, with a lowest recorded temperature of 2 °C (36 °F). The hottest month is usually January, with a highest recorded temperature of 38.4 °C (101 °F).

The 852-metre (2,795 ft) elevation[citation needed] of Belo Horizonte helps a little in cooling the city, suppressing high maximum air temperatures experienced in nearby cities at lower altitudes. Belo Horizonte's climate is mild throughout the year. Temperatures vary between 11 and 31 °C (52 and 88 °F), the average being 22 °C (72 °F). Winter is dry and mostly sunny, and summer is rainy.



	Climate data for Belo Horizonte (1981–2010, extremes 1949–present)

	Month
	Jan
	Feb
	Mar
	Apr
	May
	Jun
	Jul
	Aug
	Sep
	Oct
	Nov
	Dec
	Year

	Record high °C (°F)
	35.4
(95.7)
	35.2
(95.4)
	33.5
(92.3)
	32.7
(90.9)
	31.4
(88.5)
	30.5
(86.9)
	30.8
(87.4)
	33.8
(92.8)
	36.1
(97.0)
	38.4
(101.1)
	34.7
(94.5)
	34.8
(94.6)
	38.4
(101.1)

	Average high °C (°F)
	28.4
(83.1)
	29.0
(84.2)
	28.5
(83.3)
	27.7
(81.9)
	25.8
(78.4)
	24.8
(76.6)
	24.7
(76.5)
	26.1
(79.0)
	27.4
(81.3)
	28.1
(82.6)
	27.7
(81.9)
	27.8
(82.0)
	27.2
(81.0)

	Daily mean °C (°F)
	23.4
(74.1)
	23.8
(74.8)
	23.4
(74.1)
	22.5
(72.5)
	20.5
(68.9)
	19.3
(66.7)
	19.1
(66.4)
	20.3
(68.5)
	21.6
(70.9)
	22.6
(72.7)
	22.7
(72.9)
	22.9
(73.2)
	21.8
(71.2)

	Average low °C (°F)
	19.8
(67.6)
	19.9
(67.8)
	19.7
(67.5)
	18.6
(65.5)
	16.4
(61.5)
	15.0
(59.0)
	14.7
(58.5)
	15.7
(60.3)
	17.1
(62.8)
	18.5
(65.3)
	18.9
(66.0)
	19.4
(66.9)
	17.8
(64.0)

	Record low °C (°F)
	10.4
(50.7)
	12.8
(55.0)
	11.7
(53.1)
	8.8
(47.8)
	7.5
(45.5)
	3.1
(37.6)
	5.4
(41.7)
	7.2
(45.0)
	9.8
(49.6)
	11.4
(52.5)
	9.1
(48.4)
	13.5
(56.3)
	3.1
(37.6)

	Average precipitation mm (inches)
	329.1
(12.96)
	181.4
(7.14)
	198.0
(7.80)
	74.7
(2.94)
	28.1
(1.11)
	9.7
(0.38)
	7.9
(0.31)
	14.8
(0.58)
	55.5
(2.19)
	104.7
(4.12)
	239.8
(9.44)
	358.9
(14.13)
	1,602.6
(63.09)

	Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm)
	16
	11
	11
	6
	3
	1
	1
	2
	4
	8
	14
	18
	95

	Average relative humidity (%)
	73.0
	70.0
	71.4
	69.2
	67.4
	66.2
	62.4
	57.8
	60.4
	64.1
	70.5
	74.0
	67.2

	Mean monthly sunshine hours
	176.0
	190.8
	194.9
	210.7
	221.2
	229.9
	240.5
	241.5
	202.5
	196.5
	166.9
	153.3
	2,424.7

	Source 1: Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia[15]

	Source 2: Meteo Climat (record highs and lows)[16]





Demographics[edit]

According to the 2010 IBGE Census, there were 2,258,096 people residing in the city of Belo Horizonte.[17] The census revealed the following numbers: 1,110,034 White people (46.7%), 995,167 Pardo (Multiracial) people (41.9%), 241,155 Black people (10.2%), 25,270 Asian people (1.1%), 3,477 Amerindian people (0.1%).[18]

In 2010, the city had 428,893 opposite-sex couples and 1,090 same-sex couples. The population of Belo Horizonte was 53.1% female and 46.9% male.[18]

The Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, called Greater Belo Horizonte, is the 3rd most populous of Brazil, after only Greater São Paulo (with 19,672,582 people, first in Brazil and 5th in the world) and Greater Rio de Janeiro (with 14,387,000 people). The city is the 6th most populous of the country.

During the 18th century, Minas Gerais received many Portuguese immigrants, mainly from Northern Portugal as well as many enslaved Africans.[19]

Belo Horizonte has a notable Italian influence; around 30% of the city's population have some Italian origin.[20] The Italian culture is present in the cuisine, dance, and language.[21] People of German, Spanish, and Syrian-Lebanese ancestries also make up sizeable groups.


Religion[edit]

  
Our Lady of Good Voyage Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belo Horizonte



Main article: Religion in Brazil

	Religion
	Percentage
	Number

	Catholic
	59.87%
	1,422,084

	Protestant
	25.06%
	595,244

	No religion
	8.02%
	190,414

	Spiritist
	4.07%
	96,639



Source: IBGE 2010.[22] 


Human development[edit]

  
Savassi is a developed neighbourhood in Belo Horizonte



The human development of Belo Horizonte varies greatly by locality, reflecting the city's spatial social inequality and vast socioeconomic inequalities. There are neighborhoods that had very high human development indexes in 2000 (equal to or greater than the indexes of some Scandinavian countries), but those in the lower range (in line with, for example, North Africa).[23] Carmo/Sion (0.973): greater than Iceland - 0.968; Cruzeiro/Anchieta/Funcionários (0.970): greater than Iceland - 0.968; Grajau/Gutierrez (0.965): greater than Australia - 0.962; Belvedere/Mangabeiras/Comiteco (0.964): greater than Australia – 0.962; Serra/São Lucas (0.953): equal to Japan, Netherlands – 0.953.

In 1993, under mayor Patrus Ananias de Souza, the city started a series of innovations based on its citizens having the "right to food". These include, for example, creating farmers' markets in the town to enable direct sales and regularly surveying market prices and posting the results across the city.[24] The city's process of participatory budgeting was linked with these innovations, as a result of which the infant mortality rate was reduced by 50% in a decade.[25][26] There is some evidence that these programs have helped support a higher quality of life for the local farmers partnering with the city and that this may be having positive effects on biodiversity in the Atlantic rainforest around the city.[26][27] The city's development of these policies garnered the first "Future Policy Award" in 2009, awarded by the World Future Council, a group of 50 activists (including Frances Moore Lappé, Vandana Shiva, Wes Jackson, and Youssou N'Dour[28]) concerned with the development and recognition of policies to promote a just and sustainable future.

The city has undertaken an internationally heralded project called Vila Viva ("Living Village" in Portuguese) that promises to "urbanize" the poorest areas (favelas), relocating families from areas with high risk of floods and landslides but keeping them in the same neighborhood, paving main avenues to allow public transportation, police and postal service to have access. All the work is done with 80% of locals, reducing unemployment and increasing family income.[29][30] Former mayor Fernando da Mata Pimentel was nominated for World Mayor in 2005 on the strength of these and other programs.[29]


Economy[edit]

Main article: Economy of Belo Horizonte

  
Afonso Pena Avenue



Belo Horizonte receives large numbers of visitors, as it is in the Brazilian main economic axis, exerting influence even on other states. Multinational and Brazilian companies, such as Google and Oi, maintain offices in the city. The service sector plays a very important role in the economy of Belo Horizonte, being responsible for 85% of the city's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), with other industry making up most of the remaining 15%. Belo Horizonte has a developed industrial sector, being traditionally a hub of the Brazilian siderurgical and metallurgical industries, as the state of Minas Gerais has always been very rich in minerals, specifically iron ore.

Belo Horizonte is the distribution and processing centre of a rich agricultural and mining region and the nucleus of a burgeoning industrial complex. Production is centred on steel, steel products, automobiles, and textiles. Gold, manganese, and gemstones mined in the surrounding region are processed in the city.[31]
The main industrial district of the city was set during the 1940s in Contagem, a part of greater Belo Horizonte. Multinational companies like FIAT (which opened its plant in Betim in 1974), Arcelor, and Toshiba have subsidiaries in the region, along with textiles like Group Rachelle Textil, Ematex and Cedro Textil, cosmetic, food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, furnishing and refractory companies. Among the companies headquartered in the city are steel producer Açominas (held by Gerdau, one of the largest multinationals originated in Brazil); Usiminas; Belgo-Mineira (held by Arcelor); Acesita (partially held by Arcelor); mobile communication Vivo; and Telecom Italia Mobile, Dasein executive search, executive coaching company, as well as the NYSE-listed electrical company CEMIG. Leading steel product makers Sumitomo Metals of Japan and Vallourec of France also have plans to construct an integrated steel works on the outskirts of the city.


  
Headquarters of Usiminas in Pedro Melo Square



  
Business district of the city



There are also a large number of small enterprises in the technology sector with regional to nationwide success, particularly in the fields of computing and biotechnology. Because of both governmental and private funding in the diversification of its economy, the city has become an international reference in Information Technology and Biotechnology, and is also cited because of the advanced corporate and university research in Biodiesel fuel. The number of jobs in the Information sector has been growing at annual rates above 50%. The Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Area, composed of 33 cities under the capital's direct influence, is home to 16% of the country's biotechnology companies, with annual sales of over R$550 million.[32]

Projects in these fields are likely to expand because of integration between universities, the oil company Petrobras and the Brazilian Government. One of the largest events that ever took place in the city, the Inter-American Development Bank meeting, occurred in 2005 and attracted people from all over the world.

For a long time it was marked by the predominance of its industrial sector, but from the 1990s there has been a constant expansion of the service sector economy, particularly in computer science, biotechnology, business tourism, fashion and the jewelry-making. The city is considered to be a strategic leader in the Brazilian economy. The move towards business tourism transformed the capital into a national hub for this segment of the tourist industry.


	In 2008, the city's GDP was R$42 billion (or about US$26,2 billion).[33]
	In 2008, the Greater Belo Horizonte's GDP was R$98,5 billion (or about US$61 billion).[34]
	In 2008, the city's per capita income was R$17,313 (or US$10,820).[35] In 2007, it was R$15,830[36] (about US$9,893).[36]


Government and politics[edit]

	See also: List of mayors of Belo Horizonte


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Education[edit]

Main article: Education in Brazil

  
Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais



  
Federal University of Minas Gerais



Educational institutions[edit]

Several higher education institutions are located in Belo Horizonte, including:


	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG);
	Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica de Minas Gerais (CEFET-MG);
	Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais (PUC-MG);
	Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais (UEMG) (State University of Minas Gerais);
	Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte (UNI-BH);
	Faculdade Pitágoras de Belo Horizonte (FP-BH);
	Faculdades Kennedy (FKBH);
	Centro Universitário (UNA);
	Universidade FUMEC (FUMEC);
	Universidade José do Rosário Vellano (UNIFENAS);
	Centro Universitário Newton Paiva;
	Escola Superior Dom Helder Câmara – Especializada em Direito;
	Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia (FAJE)
	Skema Business School (SK).


Transport[edit]

  
Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport



  
BRT on Cristiano Machado Avenue



  
Map of the ring road of Belo Horizonte



  
Belo Horizonte Metro



  
Afonso Pena Avenue at night



Airports[edit]

Belo Horizonte is served by three airports:


	Tancredo Neves/Confins International Airport, dedicated to domestic and international traffic. It is located in the municipalities of Lagoa Santa and Confins, 38 kilometres (24 mi) from Belo Horizonte, and was opened in January 1984. Plans for gradual expansion to meet growing demand had been already drawn up from the airport's inception. The airport has one of the lowest rates of shutdown for bad weather in the country. It ran at limited capacity until 2005, when a large proportion of Pampulha Airport air traffic was transferred to Confins. There are direct international flights to/from Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Lisbon, Buenos Aires and Panama City.
	Pampulha – Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, dedicated to domestic traffic;
	Carlos Prates Airport, dedicated to general aviation.


Highways[edit]

The city is connected to the rest of Minas Gerais state and the country by a number of roadways. Minas Gerais has the country's largest federal highway network.[37]


	BR-040 connects Belo Horizonte to Rio de Janeiro (going south) and Brasília (going northwest). It also links other cities in the state, such as Juiz de Fora, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Barbacena, Sete Lagoas, and Paracatu.
	BR-262 begins in Mato Grosso do Sul and ends in Espírito Santo, crossing Minas Gerais from west to east. It links Belo Horizonte to Pará de Minas, Araxá, Manhuaçu, Uberaba, Governador Valadares, and Vitória, the capital of Espírito Santo state.
	BR-381 is an important federal highway. It connects Belo Horizonte to São Paulo.
	MG-010 is a state highway that connects the capital to the Tancredo Neves International Airport, itself located in the municipalities of Confins and Lagoa Santa, which are part of the metropolitan area of Belo Horizonte. Starting in 2005, several flights were transferred from the Pampulha Regional Airport to the international airport. To improve access to the international airport, MG-010 is being expanded (effectively duplicating its lanes).[38]


The city is also served by other minor roads such as state highways MG-020, MG-050, MG-030, and MG-433. There is also an East-West Express Way, which goes from the city to the nearby industrial centres of Contagem and Betim (together having a population of ca. 900,000), and Anel Rodoviário, a kind of "beltway" – indeed it is not circumferential, but connects many highways, such as the federal (BR-ones) so it is not necessary for a large number of cars and trucks to pass through the city centre. Many of these roads are in poor condition, but in the last years many revitalization and rebuilding projects have been started.


Bus system[edit]

The bus system has a large number of bus lines going through all parts in the city, and is administrated by BHTRANS. Among the upcoming projects are the expansion of the integration between bus lines and the metro, with integrated stations, many already in use. And the construction of bus corridors, with lanes and bus stops exclusively for the bus lines. Keeping buses from traffic congestions, making the trips more viable for commuters.


Railways[edit]

Belo Horizonte Metro or MetroBH started operating at the end of the 1970s. There is one line, with 19 stations, from Vilarinho to Eldorado Station, in Contagem, transporting over 160,000 people daily. The current projects of expansion include Line 2, linking the existing Calafate Station to the region of Barreiro. And Line 3, from the city's main bus terminal to São Inácio de Loyola, Savassi economical district. Line 2 is planned to be overground (similar to the current line) and Line 3 is planned to be underground, passing through the city's financial centre, Praça Sete and Afonso Pena Avenue. Also, Line 1 is planned to be extended to Novo Eldorado Station.[39]


Belo Horizonte Public Transportation statistics[edit]

The average amount of time people spend commuting with public transit in Belo Horizonte, for example to and from work, on a weekday is 85 min. 26% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day. The average amount of time people wait at a stop or station for public transit is 23 min, while 50% of riders wait for over 20 minutes on average every day. The average distance people usually ride in a single trip with public transit is 8.7 km, while 19% travel for over 12 km in a single direction.[40]


Culture[edit]

	
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Theatre and dance[edit]

  
Estação Square during the International Festival of Theatre



Every two years, FIT BH, The International Theater Festival of Belo Horizonte, takes place in the city. This attracts artists from all over Brazil and worldwide. With the merger of two projects that would happen separately in 1994, one stage-based, organized by the Francisco Nunes Theater, and the other street-based, idealized by Grupo Galpão, came FIT-BH Palco & Rua. Produced every two years, under responsibility from the Belo Horizonte City Hall, through the Municipal Culture Office and the Association Movimento Teatro de Grupo of Minas Gerais, in the program there are street and stage shows, and also seminars, workshops, courses, talks, etc. The Annual Campaign for the Popularisation of Theatre takes place every year in January and February, offering dozens of plays in theatres all over the city at affordable prices.

Several notable artistic groups originated in Belo Horizonte. Grupo Corpo, which is perhaps the most famous contemporary dance group in the country, was formed in the city in 1975. In March and April is the performance program from FID promoting contemporary dance in Belo Horizonte. The program presents groups from Belo Horizonte. For this project, the priority invitations go to the shows created by groups and choreographers living in the city. The purpose is to take shows and other activities such as workshops, talks and video screenings to the less privileged regions of the city regarding access to cultural assets. Belo Horizonte is also host to the Centro Mineiro de Danças Clássicas school.


Music[edit]

  
Sala Minas Gerais is the house of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra.



Clube da Esquina is one of the most important musical movements in the musical history of Brazil. It originated in the mid-1960s, and since then its members have been hugely influential in Brazilian and even international music, some like Milton Nascimento and Toninho Horta achieving worldwide acclaim. Other people involved in the movement include musicians, songwriters, composers, conductors and lyricists, such as Tavinho Moura, Wagner Tiso, Andersen Viana, Milton Nascimento, Lô Borges, Beto Guedes, Flávio Venturini, Toninho Horta, Márcio Borges and Fernando Brant, among others.

The band Uakti – known for performing with self-built musical instruments – originated in Belo Horizonte under the influence of Walter Smetak and the Composition School from Bahia. Also, several nationally famous rock groups have been founded in Belo Horizonte, including Jota Quest, Pato Fu, Skank, 14 Bis and Tianastácia. In later years, Belo Horizonte has been more frequently included in Brazilian tours of foreign mainstream and independent acts.

Belo Horizonte is also known as the Brazilian Capital of Metal, hence the huge number of heavy metal bands (and the likes) founded there, especially in the 1980s. Most importantly, Overdose, the first metal band from BH and one of the first to gain prominence in Brazil; Sepultura, the world's best known Brazilian metal band; and Sarcófago, one of the founders of modern black metal. The contemporary Christian music band Diante do Trono, is also of Belo Horizonte. A short instrumental song by American band Earth, Wind & Fire is named after the city on their album Now, Then & Forever.


Museums[edit]

  
Pampulha Art Museum



Belo Horizonte features a number of museums including the Mineiro Museum, the Abílio Barreto Historic Museum, Arts and Workmanship Museum, a Natural History Museum and the UFMG Botanic Gardens, a telephone museum, the Pampulha Art Museum, the Professor Taylor Gramke Mineralogy Museum, and the UFMG Conservatory. The puppet theatre group Giramundo was established here in 1970, and continues to maintain a puppetry museum hosting a collection of their creations.

The Circuito Cultural Praça da Liberdade, located in the central region of Belo Horizonte, is the largest cultural circuit in Brazil. In all, there are eleven functioning museums and cultural spaces: Arquivo Público Mineiro (Minas Gerais Public Archive), Biblioteca Pública Estadual Luiz de Bessa (Luiz de Bessa State Public Library), Cefar Liberdade, Centro de Arte Popular Cemig (Cemig Center of Popular Art), Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Culture Center Bank of Brazil), Espaço do Conhecimento UFMG (UFMG Knowledge Space), Horizonte Sebrae – Casa da Economia Criativa (Sebrae Horizon – The House of Creative Economy), Memorial Minas Gerais Vale (Minas Gerais Memorial), Museu das Minas e do Metal (Mines and Metal Museum), Museu Mineiro (Minas Gerais Museum) and Palácio da Liberdade (Liberty Palace). Besides these, another three spaces are already in the process of being implemented: the Casa Fiat de Cultura (Fiat Culture House), CENA and Oi Futuro. The proposal, according to the Circuit manager, Cristiana Kumaira, is to strengthen the circuit in the world cultural context. “We are already on this path and are being careful to ensure that the activities, services and assistance fulfill the needs and expectations of both the local population and the tourists who come to Belo Horizonte from around the world. The Circuit is establishing itself as one more source of pride for the people of Minas Gerais”, she stresses.

Inaugurated in 2010, the Circuito Cultural Praça da Liberdade was created with the goal of exploring cultural diversity – with interactive options open to the public – in an area of great symbolic, historical and architectural value for Belo Horizonte. The opportunity came with the transference of the Minas Gerais Government headquarters to the Cidade Administrativa (Administrative City), in Serra Verde. After they had been adapted, the old department buildings opened their doors and began to house museums and cultural spaces.
The Circuito Cultural Praça da Liberdade is co-managed by the Instituto Sérgio Magnani (Institute) since June 2012, through a partnership signed with the Minas Gerais Government, and the museums/spaces are mostly run by private companies, which carry out investments in heritage recovery and building maintenance. According to Kumaira, this public-private partnership model allows large companies to participate and effectively contribute to the cultural advance of the city. “Beyond their fields of activities, the partners invest in the implantation and maintenance of museums, learning spaces, exhibitions rooms and shows, as well as memory centers that consolidate the history of Minas Gerais, presenting it either for free or at affordable prices”, she adds.
[41]


  
Botanical garden of UFMG



  
Palace of Arts Museum



The Natural History Museum and Botanical Garden holds an important treasure of folk art – the Nativity of Pipiripau. Created during the 20th century, the craftsman Raimundo Machado, synchronizes 586 figures, distributed in 45 scenes, which tell the story of life and death of Jesus, mixed with its variety of arts and crafts.[42] With 600,000 sq. m. of green area, the UFMG Museum of Natural History and Botanic Garden (MHN-JB) is a privileged ecological space that enables visitors to experience nature in a rich, multidisciplinary way. For 30 years, the mission of the MHN-JB has been to do research, to educate, and to meet the community's demand for service. It covers the areas of anthropology, archeology, Environmental Education, Natural History, Mineralogy, and Paleontology. It has an Ecological Amphitheater, a Free Art atelier, a greenhouse, and an Interactive Room. One of its traditional exhibitions is the Pipiripau Nativity Crèche.

Palácio das Artes, inaugurated in 1970, is the largest and most varied cultural complex in Minas Gerais. It comprises three theaters, three art galleries, a movie theater, a bookstore, a coffee shop and photography exhibition space. It offers high-quality programs for the several expressions in arts. The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer and it also houses the Minas Gerais Handcraft Center. The Pampulha Art Museum is located at the Pampulha Lake in Belo Horizonte in a building that originally housed the Pampulha Casino. The building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer, commissioned by the then-mayor and future president of Brazil Juscelino Kubitschek in the early 1940s, with external grounds by landscaper Roberto Burle Marx. The building was the first project of Oscar Niemeyer, opened as a casino, and closed in 1946. In 1957, it was re-opened as the Art Museum. His design was influenced by the principles of Le Corbusier. The gardens of Burle Marx are a tribute to the tropical green. There are three sculptures, by Ceschiatti, Zamoiski and José Pedrosa. In 1996, it won new multimedia rooms, library, café bar, a souvenir shop and technical infrastructure. The MAP has an impressive collection of 1,600 works.[43] ThemMuseum is an integral part of the "Pampulha Architectural Complex", a watershed in the history of modern architecture in Brazil and internationally.


Architecture[edit]

  
São Francisco de Assis Church in Pampulha Park



Belo Horizonte has several significant cultural landmarks, many of them situated in the Pampulha district, where there are notable examples of Brazilian contemporary architecture.[44] Under the leadership of the then mayor of city, Juscelino Kubitschek, architects and artists such as Oscar Niemeyer, landscaper Burle Marx, and painter Candido Portinari, started a type of modern architecture and art here that was greatly developed later with the construction of Brazil's new capital, Brasilia, also led by the now president Juscelino (aka JK). It is at the Pampulha complex that one can see the routes of this new architecture movement. The modern and protomodern architecture can also be seen all over Belo Horizonte, either in emblematic 1950's buildings such as Edificio Acaiaca, Conjunto JK, Hotel Amazonas[45] and former Hotel Excelsior,[46] all reflecting the modernity culture of the first planned capital of Brazil.

The Pampulha Park area includes one of the largest soccer stadiums in the world, the Mineirão stadium, and the São Francisco de Assis Church, widely known as Igreja da Pampulha, designed by Brazilian Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer. In Pampulha there is also the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais campus, whose buildings themselves are important contributions to the city's architecture. Other notable buildings include the Mesbla and Niemeyer buildings, in addition to the headquarters of corporations such as Usiminas, Seculus, and Telemig Celular.[47]

In the downtown area, landmarks include the church of São José, the Praça da Estação (Station Square), which is an old train station that now is also the Museum of Arts and Workmanship, the Municipal Park, the famous Sete de Setembro Square, where an obelisk built in 1922 marks the one hundred years of Brazilian independence from Portugal.[48] Near Central the area, in the Lourdes neighborhood, the Lourdes Basilica, is an example of Gothic Revival style. The Nossa Senhora de Fátima Church, in Santo Agostinho neighborhood, is situated in Carlos Chagas Square. Both churches are referred to as the Assembléia Church and the Assembléia Square because of their proximity to the state's legislative assembly. 


  
Niemeyer Building at Liberty Square



Next to the downtown region is the Savassi district, known for fine restaurants and as a centre of cultural events as well as the best of the city's nightlife. Many landmarks are located there, such as the Praça da Liberdade (Liberty Square), and its surrounding buildings, including the former Executive Offices of the governor called the Palácio da Liberdade (Liberty Palace), the first building to be finished during the city's planned development in the late 1890s.

The government offices moved to the "Cidade Administrativa" in 2010. This complex is made by a few massive buildings just outside the city. Nowadays, the "palaces" are being turned into museums. Still on Savassi, the meeting point of many social groups, especially the youth, is "Praça da Savassi" (Savassi Square), which is not exactly a square, and more a crossing between two major avenues (Getúlio Vargas and Cristóvão Colombo), and gathers some of the busiest bars and pubs (called locally "botecos" or "botequins") in town.

Another important landmark is Praça do Papa (Pope's Square), located at a high point south of the downtown area, with its great view of the entire city. It is named for July 1, 1980, visit by John Paul II, who held a youth mass there. The nearby Parque das Mangabeiras (Mangabeiras Park) features extensive wildlife, and-owing to its considerable size-has its own bus service, which operates solely within the confines of the park. On Sundays, Afonso Pena Avenue hosts Latin America's biggest open-air market. This is the Market of Arts and Handicrafts, most commonly known as Feira Hippie (hippie fair). Every Sunday morning 70,000 visitors find food, drinks, clothes, furniture, earrings, shoes and almost anything else.[49]



 
Pampulha Modern Ensemble, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[50][51][52]



Food and drink[edit]

  
Pão de queijo with coffee is a traditional light meal of Minas Gerais.



The regional Minas Gerais' food and the now internationally known drink of cachaça are very popular and highly rated in the capital.[53]

Belo Horizonte is internationally known as the "capital of neighborhood bars."[54] Every year, the city hosts the Comida di Buteco festival ("Pub Foods", in an approximate translation), in which a panel selects 41 bars to be visited, and then elects the one with the best appetizers using the theme ingredient of each year. The Festival is so successful that its brand was already sold to other 21 regions in Brazil (Belém, Belo Horizonte, Brasília, Campinas, Curitiba, Florianópolis, Fortaleza, Goiás, Juiz de Fora, Manaus, Montes Claros, Poços de Caldas, Porto Alegre, Recife, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Uberlândia e Vale do Aço). Since its creation in 1999, 2020 is the first year that the Comida di Buteco was postponed, due to the pandemic situation caused by COVID-19.  

Minas Gerais' cuisine is famous for its traditional dishes, like pão de queijo, feijão tropeiro, tutu de feijão, pork ribs, chicken-and-okra (served with a rich, brown gravy and rice), pork suan with ora-pro-nobis, and other usually heavy, comfort-like food. The city also abounds with pizza places, barbecue houses, fine restaurants of many nationalities and other options.


Sport[edit]

See also: Sport in Brazil

Football[edit]

  
Estadio Mineirão



  
Independência Stadium



See also: Football in Brazil, Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, and Campeonato Mineiro

As in the rest of Brazil, football is the most popular sport. The city's major teams are Atlético Mineiro, Cruzeiro and América Mineiro.

The city also has one of the biggest football stadiums in the world, the Mineirão, which opened in 1965. The older Independência Stadium was the site of the FIFA World Cup 1950 game, when the United States beat England in a 1–0 win.[55]

Mineirão, officially called Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto, was built to provide the city of Belo Horizonte with a larger alternative for Independência Stadium, then the prime venue of the city. The stadium was meant to become the most modern stadium of Brazil and the new home of Atlético Mineiro and Cruzeiro. Construction took almost five years, and on September 5, 1965 Mineirão officially opened. Mineirão hardly changed in the following decades, and in the 1990s still had its original capacity. When Brazil won their bid to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it was clear that Mineirão needed to undergo a large redevelopment.

The project included the complete reconstruction of the bottom tier, an extension of the roof, and further refurbishments to upgrade the stadium to FIFA standards. Building works took a total of three years, and were completed in December 2012. The first match at the reopened Mineirão was played on February 3, 2013 with a state championship match between Cruzeiro and Atlético. While Cruzeiro agreed on a lease to play the next 25 years at Mineirão, Atlético have not yet come to an agreement and will keep playing at Independência Stadium until doing so. Mineirão hosted a total of six matches during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, including one round of 16 match and the historical semi-final referred to as Mineirazo in which Brazil lost 1–7 against Germany. The stadium also was one of the playing venues of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup and the Olympic football tournament in 2016[56]


Football/soccer teams
	Club
	League
	Venue
	Established (team)

	Atlético Mineiro
	Série A
	Independência Stadium / Mineirão
23,018 (32,721 record) / 61.846 (115,142 record)


	1908

	Cruzeiro
	Série B
	Mineirão
61.846 (132,834 record)


	1921

	América Mineiro
	Série B
	Independência Stadium
23,018 (32,721 record)


	1912



In addition to football, Belo Horizonte has one of the largest attendances at volleyball matches in the entire country. They are played either at Mineirinho, home of Brazil's national volleyball team, or at Minas Tênis Clube.


Tennis[edit]

Belo Horizonte is home to 2015 French Open men's doubles champion and former World no. 1 doubles player Marcelo Melo as well as 2016 Australian Open men's doubles and mixed doubles champion Bruno Soares.


Twin towns – sister cities[edit]

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Brazil

Belo Horizonte is twinned with:[57]



	 Cuenca, Ecuador (2004)
	 Fort Lauderdale, United States (2003)
	 Granada, Spain (1975)
	 Havana, Cuba (1995)
	 Homs, Syria (2001)
	 Lagos, Nigeria (2011)
	 Luanda, Angola (1968)
	 Masaya, Nicaragua (2002)
	 Newark, United States (2006)
	 Tripoli, Libya (2003)
	 Tegucigalpa, Honduras (2004)
	 Zahlé, Lebanon (1974)




See also[edit]

	Zona Boêmia


Notes[edit]


	^ European Portuguese: [ˈbɛlu ɔɾiˈzõtɨ].





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Official[edit]

	(in Portuguese) City Hall of Belo Horizonte website
	(in Portuguese) Government of the State of Minas Gerais website


Education[edit]

	(in Portuguese) PUC-MG – the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais
	(in Portuguese) UNI-BH – the University of Belo Horizonte
	(in Portuguese) UFMG – Federal University of Minas Gerais
	(in Portuguese) CEFET-MG – Federal Center of Technologic Education of Minas Gerais
	(in English) Escola Americana de Belo Horizonte – (American School of Belo Horizonte)
	(in English) SKEMA Business School (SKEMA Business School)


Photos[edit]

	Images of Belo Horizonte
	Belo Horizonte: A Planned City with a Plan – a 1949 U. S. Government film about this city available for free download and viewing at The Internet Archive


Architecture[edit]

	(in Portuguese) ARQBH
	(in Portuguese) Guia Arquitetônico de Belo Horizonte


Tourism[edit]

	Tourism Belo Horizonte
	Information about Belo Horizonte
	Travel Information
	AboutBrasil/Belo Horizonte – Metropolis on the Horizon
	(in Portuguese) BeloHorizonte.com – City Portal with services and business links
	(in Portuguese) Maplink – Belo Horizonte Street Guide and Maps
	(in Portuguese) Belo Horizonte Yellow Pages
	(in Portuguese) Culture in Belo Horizonte


Food security[edit]

	Video about Belo Horizonte's receipt of the World Future Policy award
	Presentations and papers on Belo Horizonte by Brazilian Canadian economist Cecilia Rocha, Toronto Food Policy Council coordinator Wayne Roberts, and former city food security administrator Adriana Aranha at Ryerson University's Centre for Studies in Food Security
	"The City that Ended Hunger", Frances Moore Lappé's essay on Belo Horizonte's programs in Yes! Magazine


Culture[edit]

	(in Portuguese) Comida di Buteco Festival of bar appetizers.


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 Municipalities of Minas Gerais

	Capital: Belo Horizonte

	
	Mesoregion Campo das Vertentes

	
	Barbacena	
	Alfredo Vasconcelos
	Antônio Carlos
	Barbacena
	Barroso
	Capela Nova
	Caranaíba
	Carandaí
	Desterro do Melo
	Ibertioga
	Ressaquinha
	Santa Bárbara do Tugúrio
	Senhora dos Remédios




	Lavras	
	Carrancas
	Ijaci
	Ingaí
	Itumirim
	Itutinga
	Lavras
	Luminárias
	Nepomuceno
	Ribeirão Vermelho




	São João del Rei	
	Conceição da Barra de Minas
	Coronel Xavier Chaves
	Dores de Campos
	Lagoa Dourada
	Madre de Deus de Minas
	Nazareno
	Piedade do Rio Grande
	Prados
	Resende Costa
	Ritápolis
	Santa Cruz de Minas
	Santana do Garambéu
	São João del Rei
	São Tiago
	Tiradentes









	

	
	Mesoregion Central Mineira

	
	Bom Despacho	
	Araújos
	Bom Despacho
	Dores do Indaiá
	Estrela do Indaiá
	Japaraíba
	Lagoa da Prata
	Leandro Ferreira
	Luz
	Martinho Campos
	Moema
	Quartel Geral
	Serra da Saudade




	Curvelo	
	Augusto de Lima
	Buenópolis
	Corinto
	Curvelo
	Felixlândia
	Inimutaba
	Joaquim Felício
	Monjolos
	Morro da Garça
	Presidente Juscelino
	Santo Hipólito




	Três Marias	
	Abaeté
	Biquinhas
	Cedro do Abaeté
	Morada Nova de Minas
	Paineiras
	Pompéu
	Três Marias










	
	Mesoregion Jequitinhonha

	
	Almenara	
	Almenara
	Bandeira
	Divisópolis
	Felisburgo
	Jacinto
	Jequitinhonha
	Joaíma
	Jordânia
	Mata Verde
	Monte Formoso
	Palmópolis
	Rio do Prado
	Rubim
	Salto da Divisa
	Santa Maria do Salto
	Santo Antônio do Jacinto




	Araçuaí	
	Araçuaí
	Caraí
	Coronel Murta
	Itinga
	Novo Cruzeiro
	Padre Paraíso
	Ponto dos Volantes
	Virgem da Lapa




	Capelinha	
	Angelândia
	Aricanduva
	Berilo
	Capelinha
	Carbonita
	Chapada do Norte
	Francisco Badaró
	Itamarandiba
	Jenipapo de Minas
	José Gonçalves de Minas
	Leme do Prado
	Minas Novas
	Turmalina
	Veredinha




	Diamantina	
	Couto de Magalhaes de Minas
	Datas
	Diamantina
	Felício dos Santos
	Gouveia
	Presidente Kubitschek
	São Gonçalo do Rio Preto
	Senador Modestino Gonçalves




	Pedra Azul	
	Cachoeira de Pajeú
	Comercinho
	Itaobim
	Medina
	Pedra Azul










	
	Mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte

	
	Belo Horizonte	
	Belo Horizonte
	Betim
	Brumadinho
	Caeté
	Confins
	Contagem
	Esmeraldas
	Ibirité
	Igarapé
	Juatuba
	Lagoa Santa
	Mário Campos
	Mateus Leme
	Nova Lima
	Pedro Leopoldo
	Raposos
	Ribeirão das Neves
	Rio Acima
	Sabará
	Santa Luzia
	São Joaquim de Bicas
	São José da Lapa
	Sarzedo
	Vespasiano




	Conceição do Mato Dentro	
	Alvorada de Minas
	Conceição do Mato Dentro
	Congonhas do Norte
	Dom Joaquim
	Itambé do Mato Dentro
	Morro do Pilar
	Passabém
	Rio Vermelho
	Santo Antônio do Itambé
	Santo Antônio do Rio Abaixo
	São Sebastião do Rio Preto
	Serra Azul de Minas
	Serro




	Conselheiro Lafaiete	
	Casa Grande
	Catas Altas da Noruega
	Congonhas
	Conselheiro Lafaiete
	Cristiano Otoni
	Desterro de Entre Rios
	Entre Rios de Minas
	Itaverava
	Ouro Branco
	Queluzito
	Santana dos Montes
	São Brás do Suaçuí




	Itabira	
	Alvinópolis
	Barão de Cocais
	Bela Vista de Minas
	Bom Jesus do Amparo
	Catas Altas
	Dionísio
	Ferros
	Itabira
	João Monlevade
	Nova Era
	Nova União
	Rio Piracicaba
	Santa Bárbara
	Santa Maria de Itabira
	São Domingos do Prata
	São Gonçalo do Rio Abaixo
	São José do Goiabal
	Taquaraçu de Minas




	Itaguara	
	Belo Vale
	Bonfim
	Crucilândia
	Itaguara
	Itatiaiuçu
	Jeceaba
	Moeda
	Piedade dos Gerais
	Rio Manso




	Ouro Preto	
	Diogo de Vasconcelos
	Itabirito
	Mariana
	Ouro Preto




	Pará de Minas	
	Florestal
	Onça de Pitangui
	Pará de Minas
	Pitangui
	São José da Varginha




	Sete Lagoas	
	Araçaí
	Baldim
	Cachoeira da Prata
	Caetanópolis
	Capim Branco
	Cordisburgo
	Fortuna de Minas
	Funilândia
	Inhaúma
	Jaboticatubas
	Jequitibá
	Maravilhas
	Matozinhos
	Papagaios
	Paraopeba
	Pequi
	Prudente de Morais
	Santana de Pirapama
	Santana do Riacho
	Sete Lagoas










	
	Mesoregion Noroeste de Minas

	
	Paracatu	
	Brasilândia de Minas
	Guarda-Mor
	João Pinheiro
	Lagamar
	Lagoa Grande
	Paracatu
	Presidente Olegário
	São Gonçalo do Abaeté
	Varjão de Minas
	Vazante




	Unaí	
	Arinos
	Bonfinópolis de Minas
	Buritis
	Cabeceira Grande
	Dom Bosco
	Formoso
	Natalândia
	Unaí
	Uruana de Minas










	
	Mesoregion Norte de Minas

	
	Bocaiúva	
	Bocaiúva
	Engenheiro Navarro
	Francisco Dumont
	Guaraciama
	Olhos-d'Água




	Grão Mogol	
	Botumirim
	Cristália
	Grão Mogol
	Itacambira
	Josenópolis
	Padre Carvalho




	Janaúba	
	Catuti
	Espinosa
	Gameleiras
	Jaíba
	Janaúba
	Mamonas
	Mato Verde
	Monte Azul
	Nova Porteirinha
	Pai Pedro
	Porteirinha
	Riacho dos Machados
	Serranópolis de Minas




	Januária	
	Bonito de Minas
	Chapada Gaúcha
	Cônego Marinho
	Icaraí de Minas
	Itacarambi
	Januária
	Juvenília
	Manga
	Matias Cardoso
	Miravânia
	Montalvânia
	Pedras de Maria da Cruz
	Pintópolis
	São Francisco
	São João das Missões
	Urucuia




	Montes Claros	
	Brasília de Minas
	Campo Azul
	Capitão Enéas
	Claro dos Poções
	Coração de Jesus
	Francisco Sá
	Glaucilândia
	Ibiracatu
	Japonvar
	Juramento
	Lontra
	Luislândia
	Mirabela
	Montes Claros
	Patis
	Ponto Chique
	São João da Lagoa
	São João da Ponte
	São João do Pacuí
	Ubaí
	Varzelândia
	Verdelândia




	Pirapora	
	Buritizeiro
	Ibiaí
	Jequitaí
	Lagoa dos Patos
	Lassance
	Pirapora
	Riachinho
	Santa Fé de Minas
	São Romão
	Várzea da Palma




	Salinas	
	Águas Vermelhas
	Berizal
	Curral de Dentro
	Divisa Alegre
	Fruta de Leite
	Indaiabira
	Montezuma
	Ninheira
	Novorizonte
	Rio Pardo de Minas
	Rubelita
	Salinas
	Santa Cruz de Salinas
	Santo Antônio do Retiro
	São João do Paraíso
	Taiobeiras
	Vargem Grande do Rio Pardo










	
	Mesoregion Oeste de Minas

	
	Campo Belo	
	Aguanil
	Campo Belo
	Cana Verde
	Candeias
	Cristais
	Perdões
	Santana do Jacaré




	Divinópolis	
	Carmo do Cajuru
	Cláudio
	Conceição do Pará
	Divinópolis
	Igaratinga
	Itaúna
	Nova Serrana
	Perdigão
	Santo Antônio do Monte
	São Gonçalo do Pará
	São Sebastião do Oeste




	Formiga	
	Arcos
	Camacho
	Córrego Fundo
	Formiga
	Itapecerica
	Pains
	Pedra do Indaiá
	Pimenta




	Oliveira	
	Bom Sucesso
	Carmo da Mata
	Carmópolis de Minas
	Ibituruna
	Oliveira
	Passa Tempo
	Piracema
	Santo Antônio do Amparo
	São Francisco de Paula




	Piui	
	Bambuí
	Córrego Danta
	Doresópolis
	Iguatama
	Medeiros
	Piumhi
	São Roque de Minas
	Tapiraí
	Vargem Bonita










	
	Mesoregion Sudoeste de Minas

	
	Alfenas	
	Alfenas
	Alterosa
	Areado
	Carmo do Rio Claro
	Carvalhópolis
	Conceição da Aparecida
	Divisa Nova
	Fama
	Machado
	Paraguaçu
	Poço Fundo
	Serrania




	Andrelândia	
	Aiuruoca
	Andrelândia
	Arantina
	Bocaina de Minas
	Bom Jardim de Minas
	Carvalhos
	Cruzília
	Liberdade
	Minduri
	Passa-Vinte
	São Vicente de Minas
	Seritinga
	Serranos




	Itajubá	
	Brasópolis
	Consolação
	Cristina
	Delfim Moreira
	Dom Viçoso
	Itajubá
	Maria da Fé
	Marmelópolis
	Paraisópolis
	Piranguçu
	Piranguinho
	Virgínia
	Wenceslau Braz




	Passos	
	Alpinópolis
	Bom Jesus da Penha
	Capetinga
	Capitólio
	Cássia
	Claraval
	Delfinópolis
	Fortaleza de Minas
	Ibiraci
	Itaú de Minas
	Passos
	Pratápolis
	São João Batista do Glória
	São José da Barra




	Poços de Caldas	
	Albertina
	Andradas
	Bandeira do Sul
	Botelhos
	Caldas
	Campestre
	Ibitiúra de Minas
	Inconfidentes
	Jacutinga
	Monte Sião
	Ouro Fino
	Poços de Caldas
	Santa Rita de Caldas




	Pouso Alegre	
	Bom Repouso
	Borda da Mata
	Bueno Brandão
	Camanducaia
	Cambuí
	Congonhal
	Córrego do Bom Jesus
	Espírito Santo do Dourado
	Estiva
	Extrema
	Gonçalves
	Ipuiúna
	Itapeva
	Munhoz
	Pouso Alegre
	Sapucaí-Mirim
	Senador Amaral
	Senador José Bento
	Tocos do Moji
	Toledo




	Santa Rita do Sapucaí	
	Cachoeira de Minas
	Careaçu
	Conceição das Pedras
	Conceição dos Ouros
	Cordislândia
	Heliodora
	Natércia
	Pedralva
	Santa Rita do Sapucaí
	São Gonçalo do Sapucaí
	São João da Mata
	São José do Alegre
	São Sebastião da Bela Vista
	Silvianópolis
	Turvolândia




	São Lourenco	
	Alagoa
	Baependi
	Cambuquira
	Carmo de Minas
	Caxambu
	Conceição do Rio Verde
	Itamonte
	Itanhandu
	Jesuânia
	Lambari
	Olímpio Noronha
	Passa Quatro
	Pouso Alto
	São Lourenço
	São Sebastião do Rio Verde
	Soledade de Minas




	São Sebastiao do Paraíso	
	Arceburgo
	Cabo Verde
	Guaranesia
	Guaxupé
	Itamogi
	Jacuí
	Juruaia
	Monte Belo
	Monte Santo de Minas
	Muzambinho
	Nova Resende
	São Pedro da União
	São Sebastião do Paraíso
	São Tomás de Aquino




	Varginha	
	Boa Esperança
	Campanha
	Campo do Meio
	Campos Gerais
	Carmo da Cachoeira
	Coqueiral
	Elói Mendes
	Guapé
	Ilicínea
	Monsenhor Paulo
	Santana da Vargem
	São Bento Abade
	São Thomé das Letras
	Três Corações
	Três Pontas
	Varginha










	
	Mesoregion Triângulo Mineiro/Alto Paranaiba

	
	Araxá	
	Araxá
	Campos Altos
	Ibiá
	Nova Ponte
	Pedrinópolis
	Perdizes
	Pratinha
	Sacramento
	Santa Juliana
	Tapira




	Frutal	
	Campina Verde
	Carneirinho
	Comendador Gomes
	Fronteira
	Frutal
	Itapagipe
	Iturama
	Limeira do Oeste
	Pirajuba
	Planura
	São Francisco de Sales
	União de Minas




	Ituiutaba	
	Cachoeira Dourada
	Capinópolis
	Gurinhatã
	Ipiaçu
	Ituiutaba
	Santa Vitória




	Patos de Minas	
	Arapuá
	Carmo do Paranaíba
	Guimarânia
	Lagoa Formosa
	Matutina
	Patos de Minas
	Rio Paranaíba
	Santa Rosa da Serra
	São Gotardo
	Tiros




	Patrocínio	
	Abadia dos Dourados
	Coromandel
	Cruzeiro da Fortaleza
	Douradoquara
	Estrela do Sul
	Grupiara
	Iraí de Minas
	Monte Carmelo
	Patrocínio
	Romaria
	Serra do Salitre




	Uberaba	
	Água Comprida
	Campo Florido
	Conceição das Alagoas
	Conquista
	Delta
	Uberaba
	Veríssimo




	Uberlândia	
	Araguari
	Araporã
	Canápolis
	Cascalho Rico
	Centralina
	Indianópolis
	Monte Alegre de Minas
	Prata
	Tupaciguara
	Uberlândia










	
	Mesoregion Vale do Mucuri

	
	Nanuque	
	Águas Formosas
	Bertópolis
	Carlos Chagas
	Crisólita
	Fronteira dos Vales
	Machacalis
	Nanuque
	Santa Helena de Minas
	Serra dos Aimorés
	Umburatiba




	Teófilo Otoni	
	Ataléia
	Catuji
	Franciscópolis
	Frei Gaspar
	Itaipé
	Ladainha
	Malacacheta
	Novo Oriente de Minas
	Ouro Verde de Minas
	Pavão
	Poté
	Setubinha
	Teófilo Otoni










	
	Mesoregion Zona da Mata

	
	Cataguases	
	Além Paraíba
	Argirita
	Cataguases
	Dona Eusébia
	Estrela Dalva
	Itamarati de Minas
	Laranjal
	Leopoldina
	Palma
	Pirapetinga
	Recreio
	Santana de Cataguases
	Santo Antônio do Aventureiro
	Volta Grande




	Juiz de Fora	
	Aracitaba
	Belmiro Braga
	Bias Fortes
	Bicas
	Chácara
	Chiador
	Coronel Pacheco
	Descoberto
	Ewbank da Câmara
	Goianá
	Guarará
	Juiz de Fora
	Lima Duarte
	Mar de Espanha
	Maripá de Minas
	Matias Barbosa
	Olaria
	Oliveira Fortes
	Paiva
	Pedro Teixeira
	Pequeri
	Piau
	Rio Novo
	Rio Preto
	Rochedo de Minas
	Santa Bárbara do Monte Verde
	Santa Rita de Ibitipoca
	Santa Rita de Jacutinga
	Santana do Deserto
	Santos Dumont
	São João Nepomuceno
	Senador Cortes
	Simão Pereira




	Manhuaçu	
	Abre Campo
	Alto Caparaó
	Alto Jequitibá
	Caparaó
	Caputira
	Chalé
	Durandé
	Lajinha
	Luisburgo
	Manhuaçu
	Manhumirim
	Martins Soares
	Matipó
	Pedra Bonita
	Reduto
	Santa Margarida
	Santana do Manhuaçu
	São João do Manhuaçu
	São José do Mantimento
	Simonésia




	Muriaé	
	Antônio Prado de Minas
	Barão de Monte Alto
	Caiana
	Carangola
	Divino
	Espera Feliz
	Eugenópolis
	Faria Lemos
	Fervedouro
	Miradouro
	Miraí
	Muriaé
	Orizânia
	Patrocínio do Muriaé
	Pedra Dourada
	Rosário da Limeira
	São Francisco do Glória
	São Sebastião da Vargem Alegre
	Tombos
	Vieiras




	Ponte Nova	
	Acaiaca
	Barra Longa
	Dom Silvério
	Guaraciaba
	Jequeri
	Oratórios
	Piedade de Ponte Nova
	Ponte Nova
	Raul Soares
	Rio Casca
	Rio Doce
	Santa Cruz do Escalvado
	Santo Antônio do Grama
	São Pedro dos Ferros
	Sem-Peixe
	Sericita
	Urucânia
	Vermelho Novo




	Ubá	
	Astolfo Dutra
	Divinésia
	Dores do Turvo
	Guarani
	Guidoval
	Guiricema
	Mercês
	Piraúba
	Rio Pomba
	Rodeiro
	São Geraldo
	Senador Firmino
	Silveirânia
	Tabuleiro
	Tocantins
	Ubá
	Visconde do Rio Branco




	Viçosa	
	Alto Rio Doce
	Amparo do Serra
	Araponga
	Brás Pires
	Cajuri
	Canaã
	Cipotânea
	Coimbra
	Ervália
	Lamim
	Paula Cândido
	Pedra do Anta
	Piranga
	Porto Firme
	Presidente Bernardes
	Rio Espera
	São Miguel do Anta
	Senhora de Oliveira
	Teixeiras
	Viçosa










	
	Mesoregion Vale do Rio Doce

	
	Aimorés	
	Aimorés
	Alvarenga
	Conceição de Ipanema
	Conselheiro Pena
	Cuparaque
	Goiabeira
	Ipanema
	Itueta
	Mutum
	Pocrane
	Resplendor
	Santa Rita do Itueto
	Taparuba




	Caratinga	
	Bom Jesus do Galho
	Bugre
	Caratinga
	Córrego Novo
	Dom Cavati
	Entre Folhas
	Iapu
	Imbé de Minas
	Inhapim
	Ipaba
	Piedade de Caratinga
	Pingo-d'Água
	Santa Bárbara do Leste
	Santa Rita de Minas
	São Domingos das Dores
	São João do Oriente
	São Sebastião do Anta
	Tarumirim
	Ubaporanga
	Vargem Alegre




	Governador Valadares	
	Alpercata
	Campanário
	Capitão Andrade
	Coroaci
	Divino das Laranjeiras
	Engenheiro Caldas
	Fernandes Tourinho
	Frei Inocêncio
	Galiléia
	Governador Valadares
	Itambacuri
	Itanhomi
	Jampruca
	Marilac
	Mathias Lobato
	Nacip Raydan
	Nova Módica
	Pescador
	São Geraldo da Piedade
	São Geraldo do Baixio
	São José da Safira
	São José do Divino
	Sobrália
	Tumiritinga
	Virgolândia




	Guanhães	
	Braúnas
	Carmésia
	Coluna
	Divinolândia de Minas
	Dores de Guanhães
	Gonzaga
	Guanhães
	Materlândia
	Paulistas
	Sabinópolis
	Santa Efigênia de Minas
	São João Evangelista
	Sardoá
	Senhora do Porto
	Virginópolis




	Ipatinga	
	Açucena
	Antônio Dias
	Belo Oriente
	Coronel Fabriciano
	Ipatinga
	Jaguaraçu
	Joanésia
	Marliéria
	Mesquita
	Naque
	Periquito
	Santana do Paraíso
	Timóteo




	Mantena	
	Central de Minas
	Itabirinha
	Mantena
	Mendes Pimentel
	Nova Belém
	São Félix de Minas
	São João do Manteninha




	Peçanha	
	Água Boa
	Cantagalo
	Frei Lagonegro
	José Raydan
	Peçanha
	Santa Maria do Suaçuí
	São José do Jacuri
	São Pedro do Suaçuí
	São Sebastião do Maranhão













	
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Capitals of Brazilian states

	Brasília (DF)

	Northern	
	Belém (PA)
	Boa Vista (RR)
	Rio Branco (AC)
	Manaus (AM)
	Palmas (TO)
	Porto Velho (RO)
	Macapá (AP)




	Northeast	
	Aracaju (SE)
	Fortaleza (CE)
	João Pessoa (PB)
	Maceió (AL)
	Natal (RN)
	Recife (PE)
	Salvador (BA)
	São Luís (MA)
	Teresina (PI)




	Center-West	
	Campo Grande (MS)
	Cuiabá (MT)
	Goiânia (GO)




	Southeast	
	Belo Horizonte (MG)
	Rio de Janeiro (RJ)
	São Paulo (SP)
	Vitória (ES)




	South	
	Curitiba (PR)
	Florianópolis (SC)
	Porto Alegre (RS)











	Authority control 	
	GND: 4005444-5
	LCCN: n79107947
	MBAREA: 208e783b-661d-4164-935a-90f9e7937195
	NARA: 10037277
	NKC: ge410503
	VIAF: 136031932
	 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n79107947














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