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After its inauguration, just a small fraction of the capacity of Confins was used. This was partly due to its distance from downtown Belo Horizonte and, until recently, to the lack of satisfactory transportation alternatives for the pricey (about US$40) taxi rides. The over-crowded Pampulha Airport remained the airport of choice.
The Praça Raul Soares (English: Raul Soares Square) is a major square of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The square is named in honor of Raul Soares de Moura, former governor of Minas Gerais. It is situated at the confluence of four major avenues: Amazonas, Augusto de Lima, Bias Fortes and Olegário Maciel. [2]
Carlos Prates Airport (ICAO: SBPR) was one of the airports serving Belo Horizonte, Brazil.It was named after the neighborhood where it is located and this, in turn, was named after an Engineer that planned parts of Belo Horizonte.
Pampulha–Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (IATA: PLU, ICAO: SBBH) is an airport serving Belo Horizonte, Brazil, located in the neighborhood of Pampulha. Since December 16, 2004, the airport is also named after the Minas Gerais-born poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902–1987). [5] The airport is operated by CCR.
Belo Horizonte, Brazil Coordinates: 19°55′08.84″S 43°56′19.18″W / 19.9191222°S 43.9386611°W / -19.9191222; -43.9386611 The Praça Sete de Setembro (English: 7 September Square ), often called Praça Sete , is a square in downtown Belo Horizonte , Minas Gerais , Brazil.
60 locations in Brazil (41 of them in the Amazon region) and 16 abroad, as of May 1964: Parent company: NYRBA (1929–1930) Pan American World Airways (1930–1961) Planejamento e Administração Guanabara (1960–1965) Headquarters: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Key people: Ralph O'Neill (founder) Paulo de Oliveira Sampaio (CEO 1943–1955; 1961–1965)
There are special shuttle buses linking Galeão to Santos-Dumont, and bus and taxi service to the rest of the city. The airport complex also has Brazil's longest runway at 4.240 meters, and one of South America's largest and best equipped cargo logistics terminals. Belo Horizonte; The Confins International Airport in the main hub in Minas Gerais.
Belo Horizonte [5] is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.3 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million. [6] It is the 13th-largest city in South America and the 18th-largest in the Americas.