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Belo Horizonte

American  
[be-loo aw-ri-zawn-ti] / ˈbɛ lʊ ˌɔ rɪˈzɔ̃ tɪ /
Or Bello Horizonte

noun

  1. a city in SE Brazil.


Belo Horizonte British  
/ ˈbɛːloriˈzõːntə /

noun

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

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He sat out the semi-final of the 2014 World Cup in Belo Horizonte, Brazil's successful 2019 Copa America campaign and two out of five games in the 2022 World Cup.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

The temperatures are expected to reach these blistering heights primarily in the Central West region, which includes large cities like Brasília, Manaus and Belo Horizonte.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

Lorenzato, born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, painted recognizable scenes — largely landscapes — but pared his subjects down to geometric forms.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

Economic compensation is needed, Djukurnã Krenak said, as is the creation of a museum in the capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, “so that this story doesn’t fall into the past.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 5, 2024

In that year Peter Wilhelm Lund, a Danish botanist, found thirty skeletons in caves twenty miles north of Belo Horizonte.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann