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Belo Horizonte
Capital city of Minas Gerais, Brazil

Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of around 2.4 million, and the third largest metropolitan area, containing a population of 6 million.

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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.

Get in

Getting to Belo Horizonte

BH is a major national hub for bus travel. There are two intercity bus stations:

  1. 01
    Terminal Rodoviário de Belo Horizonte

    It is downtown at the northern end of Afonso Pena Avenue.

  2. 02
    Terminal Turístico JK
  3. 03
    Confins Airport
  4. 04
    Pampulha Airport
See

Worth seeing

Note that a lot of places including museums, the parque municipal and the Mangueira park are closed on Mondays.

  1. 01
    Pampulha
  2. 02
    Mineirão Stadium
  3. 03
    Mangabeiras Park

    This is an amazing place for nature lovers, a place where the Cerrado mixes with the Atlantic Forest, this is a great visit for children and family.

  4. 04
    Praça da Liberdade
  5. 05
    Museum of Arts and Crafts

    Praça Rui Barbosa, Centro, info@mao.org.br.

  6. 06
    Alta Vila Tower
Do

Things to do

Watch the sunset at Parque das Mangabeiras. See the metropolitan area illuminated at night by visiting Praça do Papa, in the Mangabeiras district (recommended for those with a car). Take a seat in one of the many bars scattered throughout the city. There is a myth that Belo Horizonte is the city with the most bars per capita in the country.

Eat

Where to eat

Minas Gerais is renowned for its cuisine across Brazil, and is the origin of many famous foods such as pão de queijo (small baked roll made with cheese and cassava flour) and feijoada (black bean and meat stew). Like elsewhere in Brazil, restaurant food is typically served in some variation of a buffet. = =

  1. 01
    Marilanches

    R.

  2. 02
    A Pastelândia

    R.

  3. 03
    Gruta do Paulista

    Rua dos Tupis, 149 - Loja 3.

  4. 04
    Cozinha Mineira

    Rua dos Goitacazes, 376.

How locals move

Getting around Belo Horizonte the local way

  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Belo Horizonte, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Otomso (CC BY-SA 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.