Pampulha (Belo Horizonte)

Pampulha
Administrative Region
  • Região Administrativa da Pampulha
  • Administrative Region of Pampulha

Aerial view of Pampulha

Location of Pampulha in Belo Horizonte
Pampulha

Location in Brazil

Coordinates: 19°51′44″S 43°58′14″W / 19.86222°S 43.97056°W / -19.86222; -43.97056Coordinates: 19°51′44″S 43°58′14″W / 19.86222°S 43.97056°W / -19.86222; -43.97056
Country  Brazil
Region Southeast
State Minas Gerais
City Belo Horizonte
Founded 1943
Area
  Total 47.13 km2 (18.20 sq mi)
Population (2015)
  Total 145,262
  Density 3.08/km2 (8.0/sq mi)
Time zone Brasilia Official Time (UTC-3)
  Summer (DST) Brazilian Daylight Saving Time (UTC-2)

Pampulha (Portuguese: Região Administrativa da 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 145,262 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.[1][2]

Otacílio Negrão de Limam, mayor of Belo Horizonte in the early 20th century, dammed a small streamed called Pampulha in 1936 for flood control and augment the city water supply through the creation of a reservoir. The resulting Lake Pampulha became the site of an urban development project by Juscelino Kubitschek. Kubitschek called on the young architect Oscar Niemeyer to create a series of buildings; Niemeyer was joined by the landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx and numerous artists to create site now considered the earliest and most important example of Modernism in Brazil.[1][3]

In July 2016 the area around the lake became an UNESCO World Heritage Site site known as the Pampulha Modern Ensemble (Conjunto Arquitetônico da Pampulha).[3][4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Perfil da Região Administrativa Pampulha" (in Portuguese). Belo Horizonte, MG: Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte. 2003. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  2. "IBGE divulga dados populacionais de Belo Horizonte" (in Portuguese). Belo Horizonte, MG: Prefeitura Municipal de Belo Horizonte. 2011-05-08. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  3. 1 2 "Candidatura da Pampulha a patrimônio mundial será oficializada" (in Portuguese). UNESCO. 2014-10-12. Retrieved 2016-07-16.
  4. "Four new sites inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List". UNESCO. 2016-07-17. Retrieved 2016-07-20.
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