Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)
Pampulha is an administrative region in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Pampulha is an administrative region in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is one of nine administrative regions of Belo Horizonte, and occupies 47.13 kilometres (29.29 mi) in the northeast of the city. It has a population of 350,000 and a population density of 3.08 per square kilometer. The center of the Pampulha is occupied by Lake Pampulha, an artificial lake constructed in the early 1940s by Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, later president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. The Pampulha administrative region is further subdivided into 29 neighborhoods (bairros), one of which is also called Pampulha.
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Worth seeing in and around Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Federal University of Minas Gerais
The Federal University of Minas Gerais is a federal research university located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Its main and biggest campus is located in the city of Belo Horizonte.
900 m · public, federal university in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil · Wikipedia - 02Mineirão
Mineirão, officially known as Governor Magalhães Pinto Stadium, is an association football stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Owned by the state of Minas Gerais, it is used by Cruzeiro Esporte Clube.
400 m · football stadium in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil · Wikipedia - 03Pampulha Modern Ensemble
The Pampulha Modern Ensemble is an urban project in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais state of Brazil. It was designed around an artificial lake, Lake Pampulha, in the district of Pampulha and includes a casino, a ballroom, the Golf Yacht Club and the Church of Saint Francis of Assisi.
1.2 km · UNESCO World Heritage Site in Minas Gerais, Brazil · Wikipedia - 04Church of Saint Francis of Assisi
The Church of Saint Francis of Assisi is a chapel in Pampulha region of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. It was designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in the organic modern style.
1 km · church in Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 05Mineirinho
Mineirinho Arena, sometimes called just Mineirinho, is the biggest indoor sporting arena in Brazil. Located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the arena holds 25,000 people.
200 m · indoor sporting arena in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 06Pampulha art museum
The Pampulha Art Museum, formerly known as Cassino da Pampulha, is a building that is part of the Pampulha Modern Ensemble located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The building was designed by the architect Oscar Niemeyer at the request of the then-mayor of the city, Juscelino Kubitschek, and is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site along with the rest of the ensemble since 2016.
1.2 km · museum in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 07Lake Pampulha
Lake Pampulha is an artificial lake located in Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Pampulha is also the name of an administrative region of Belo Horizonte, and the name of one of 29 neighborhoods within the administrative region of the same name.
1.5 km · artificial lake in Belo Horizonte, Brazil · Wikipedia - 08Iate Tênis Clube
The Iate Tênis Clube is a recreational club located on the shore of the Lake Pampulha in Belo Horizonte. Its building was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in the early 1940s, integrating the Pampulha Architectural Complex, recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site since 2016.
1 km · building in Pampulha, Belo Horizonte · Wikipedia - 09Museu Casa Kubitschek
The Kubitschek Residence Museum is a museum house located on the shore of Lake Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The building served as the weekend residence of Juscelino Kubitschek, prefect of Belo Horizonte at the time.
1.3 km · historic house museum that served as residence for Juscelino Kubitschek · Wikipedia - 10Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology
The Jesuit School of Philosophy and Theology is a private Jesuit college located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It offers undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy and theology.
3.2 km · Brazilian private Jesuit university · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)
- Airports
- Tancredo Neves (CNF), 25 km
- Stations
- Belo Horizonte/Pampulha – Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport, 2.4 km · Primeiro de Maio Station, 3.9 km
- Rio De Janeiro → Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)348 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · R$350–530
- Rio de Janeiro → Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)348 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · R$350–530
- São Paulo → Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)493 km · quickest by air, 5h 35m · R$440–690
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- Get aroundIt also serves for the Orange minibuses as well (as known as "Suplementar") Green buses serve BHBUS bus stations, going from a BHBUS station to downtown and then back or connecting two different BHBUS stations.
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Pampulha (Belo Horizonte) is 7 km from Belo Horizonte, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.