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The Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico (SPHAN), the precursor to the Brazilian National Institute of Historic and Artistic Heritage, designated the city of Ouro Preto as a historic site and domestic tourist destination. SPHAN, in consultation with the architect Lúcio Costa, commissioned the construction of a modern hotel in the city.
name = Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte Name used in the default map caption; image = Belo Horizonte location map.svg The default map image, without "Image:" or "File:" top = -19.7681 Latitude at top edge of map, in decimal degrees; bottom = -20.0693 Latitude at bottom edge of map, in decimal degrees; left = -44.0675 Longitude at left edge of map ...
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File:Brazil Minas Gerais location map.svg (derivate for File:MinasGerais MesoMicroMunicip.svg) Author: File:Brazil Minas Gerais location map.svg: Shadowxfox. File:MinasGerais MesoMicroMunicip.svg: Raphael Lorenzeto de Abreu) Derivate work: Marquinhos talk
Ouro Preto used to be the capital of Minas Gerais from 1720 until the foundation of Belo Horizonte in 1897. The municipality became one of the most populous cities of Latin America, counting on about 40,000 people in 1730 and, decades after, 80,000.
Image Location Year listed UNESCO data Description Historic Town of Ouro Preto: Minas Gerais: 1980 124; i, iii (cultural) Ouro Preto, literally Black Gold, was the centre of the Brazilian Gold Rush in the 18th century. It was also the centre of the Inconfidência Mineira, the Brazilian independence movement in 1789. The gold deposits got ...
The mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte is one of the twelve mesoregions of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is composed of 105 municipalities, [1] distributed across 8 microregions. It is the most populous and densely populated of all the mesoregions of Minas Gerais. The largest city by population is Belo Horizonte.