Belo Horizonte

American

[be-loo aw-ri-zawn-ti] / ˈbɛ lʊ ˌɔ rɪˈzɔ̃ tɪ /

Or Bello Horizonte

noun

a city in SE Brazil.

Belo Horizonte British

/ ˈbɛːloriˈzõːntə /

noun

a city in SE Brazil, the capital of Minas Gerais state. Pop: 5 304 000 (2005 est)

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Belo Horizonte

Clinical sites were located in Belo Horizonte and throughout Minas Gerais, Brazil.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026

Last month a small plane crashed into the side of a building in the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte, killing the pilot and copilot.

From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026

But the truth was that in Belo Horizonte, the Americans had managed a stunning upset.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Nery, who lives in Belo Horizonte, capital city of southeastern Brazil's Minas Gerais state, and has never been to India, says she searched on Google to understand what was going on.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2025

At Belo Horizonte, he joined the university faculty and founded, on the side, Brazil's first DNA-fingerprinting company, providing paternity tests for families and forensic studies for the police.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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