Belo Horizonte (bra)

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte ranks 257th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Gdańsk, Bilbao, and San José, Costa Rica. Memorable people born in Belo Horizonte include Dilma Rousseff, Tostão, and Toninho Cerezo. Memorable people who died in Belo Horizonte include Telê Santana, Bigode, and Niginho. Belo Horizonte has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players, and religious figures. Belo Horizonte is located in Brazil.

Belo Horizonte 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia