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Belo Horizonte
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The Municipality o Belo Horizonte

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Eik-name(s): BH (read "beagá"), The Garden Ceety, Belzonti (misspellin, caused bi local accent), Belô (as foreigners uisually caw the ceety)
Belo Horizonte is located in Brazil
Belo Horizonte
Location in Brazil
Coordinates: 19°55′8.88″S 43°56′19.2″W / 19.9191333°S 43.938667°W / -19.9191333; -43.938667
Kintra Banner o Brazil Brazil
Region Sootheast
State Banner o Minas Gerais Minas Gerais
Foondit 1701
Incorporatit (as ceety) 12 December 1897
Govrenment
 - Mayor Marcio Lacerda (PSB)
Aurie
 - Municipality 330.9 km2 (127.7 sq mi)
 - Urban 282.3 km2 (109 sq mi)
 - Metro 9,459.1 km2 (3,652 sq mi)
Hicht 852.19 m (2,796 ft)
Indwallers (2010)
 - Municipality 2,375,444 (6t)
 Densitie 7,290.8/km2 (17,521/sq mi)
 Metro 5,397,438 (3rd)
 - Demonym Belorizontino
Time zone BST (UTC-3)
 - Simmer (DST) BDT (UTC-2)
Postal Code 30000-000
Aurie code(s) +55 31
Wabsteid Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais

Belo Horizonte (lit. "Bonnie Horizon", Portuguese pronunciation: [bɛloɾiˈzõtʃi][1]) is the caipital o an larigest ceety in the state o Minas Gerais, locatit in the sootheastren region o Brazil. It is the third-lairgest metropolitan aurie in the kintra. Belo Horizonte (or "Beagá", as it is an aa familiarly kent frae the soond o its initials "BH" in Portuguese) haes a population o ower 2.4 million, or amaist 5.4 million in the offeecial Metropolitan Aurie.

The region wis first settled in the early 18t century, but the ceety as it is kent the day wis planned an constructit in the 1890s, in order tae replace Ouro Preto as the caipital o Minas Gerais. The ceety features a mixture o contemporary an classical buildings, an hosts several modern Brazilian architectural icons, maist notably the Pampulha Complex. In plannin the ceety, Aarão Reis an Francisco Bicalho sought inspiration in the urban plannin o Washington, D.C.[2] The ceety haes employed notable programs in urban revitalization an fuid security, for which it haes been awardit internaitional accolades.

The ceety is built on several hills an is completely surroondit bi muntains.[3] There are several lairge pairks in the immediate surroondins o Belo Horizonte. The "Parque das Mangabeiras", locatit sax kilometres sooth-east frae the ceety centre in the hills o the Serra do Curral, affords a view ower the ceety. It hase an aurie o 2.35 km2 (580 acres), o which 0.9 km2 (220 acres) is native forest. The "Mata do Jambeiro" nature reserve extends ower 912 hectares (2,250 acres), wi vegetation typical o the Atlantic forest. Mair than ane hunder species o bird inhabit the reserve, as well as ten different species o mammals.

Sister ceeties [edit]

Belo Horizonte's sister ceeties are:[4]

References [edit]

  1. This is the local pronunciation. Elsewhaur in Brazil it is pronoonced [bɛlu oɾiˈzõtʃi], ([bɛlu oɾiˈzõti], or [bɛlu oɾiˈzõte]
  2. Belo Horizonte in Brazil Travel
  3. About Belo Horizonte
  4. Mayor's International Council Sister Cities Program. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Retrieved on 18 August 2008. .[deid airtin]
  5. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei n° 1.485 de 7 de maio de 1968. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  6. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei n° 2.380, de 11 de dezembro de 1974. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  7. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei n° 2.492, de 22 de julho de 1975. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  8. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei n° 4.574, de 15 de outubro de 1986. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  9. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei n° 4.926, de 18 de dezembro de 1987. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Relações Internacionais - Cidades Irmãs. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  11. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei n° 8.150, de 04 de janeiro de 2001 (que altera a Lei nº 7.737, de 27 de maio de 1999). Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  12. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei nº 8.272, de 26 de dezembro de 2001. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  13. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei nº 8.443, de 25 de novembro de 2002. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  14. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei nº 8.559, de 17 de junho de 2003. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  15. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei n° 8.591, de 18 de junho de 2003. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  16. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei nº 8.729, de 06 de janeiro de 2004. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  17. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei nº 8.867, de 17 de junho de 2004. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .
  18. Câmara Municipal de Belo Horizonte. Lei nº 9.156, de 12 de janeiro de 2006. Retrieved on Error: Invalid time.. .