Diamantina

Município de Diamantina "Cidade Colonial dos Diamantes" ; "Capital do Jequitinhonha" Diamantina
	Image montage by Diamantina
	Diamantina
	Diamantina
Coordinates	18 ° 14 ′ S , 43 ° 36 ′ W Coordinates: 18 ° 14 ′ S , 43 ° 36 ′ W
	Location of the municipality in the state of Minas Gerais
Symbols
coat of arms	flag
founding	1713 (settlement) (307 years) ; March 6, 1831 (town charter) (189 years)
Basic data
Country	Brazil
State	Minas Gerais
ISO 3166-2	BR-MG
height	1280 m
climate	tropical mountain climate, Cwb
surface	3,891.7 km²
Residents	45,880 (2010)
density	11.8 Ew. / km²
estimate	47,723 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code	IBGE : 3121605
Post Code	39100-000 to 39119-999
Telephone code	(+55) 38
Time zone	UTC −3
Website	diamantina.mg (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect	Juscelino Brasiliano Roque (2017-2020)
Political party	MDB
economy
GDP	725,681 thousand R $; 15,046 R $ per person ; (2017)
HDI	0.716 (high) (2010)

Diamantina , officially Portuguese Município de Diamantina , is a city in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil with around 47,000 inhabitants, called Diamantinese, and is 292 km from the capital Belo Horizonte . It has a total of 14 churches. During the colonial era , Diamantina was an important center of art and trade.

history

The first diamonds outside of Asia were found in Diamantina in the 17th century . Under the name Arraial do Tijuco , it was created as a warehouse for diamond hunters . In 1734 the royal Portuguese diamond administration settled in the place, which also became the seat of the Demarcação Diamantina . Between 1739 and 1771 the search for gemstones was assigned to private prospectors, until the beginning of the 20th century it was carried out under a state monopoly. The discovery of richer diamond deposits in South Africa led to a sudden decline in prospecting activities from around 1870. As a result, the city's baroque architecture has been preserved to this day.

In 1999, UNESCO named the city's historic center a World Heritage Site. In 1917 the Diocese of Diamantina was elevated to the Archdiocese of Diamantina .

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Panorama over Diamantina

Town twinning

Cafayate , Argentina
Sangano , Italy

sons and daughters of the town

Silvestre de Almeida Lopes , 18th century baroque painter
Bento Barroso Pereira (1785–1837), military, engineer and politician, multiple minister
Domingos José de Almeida (1797–1871), military, journalist and politician, large landowner
Marcos Antônio de Araújo (1805–1884), lawyer, university professor and diplomat, died on February 6, 1884 in Wiesbaden
Henrique Dumont (1832–1892), coffee producer, father of the aviation pioneer Alberto Santos Dumont
Couto de Magalhães (1837–1898), military man, politician and author
João da Mata Machado (1850–1901), doctor and politician, Foreign Minister 1884
Júlia Kubitschek (1873–1971), elementary school teacher, mother of Juscelino Kubitschek
Helena Morley (1880–1970), writer
Abílio Barreto (1883–1957), historian
Olímpio Mourão Filho (1900–1972), military and right-wing politician, activist in the 1964 military coup
Juscelino Kubitschek (1902–1976), politician, 1956–1961 President of Brazil
Aires da Mata Machado Filho (1909–1985), philologist, linguist and university professor
Geraldo do Espírito Santo Ávila (1929–2005), Catholic clergyman, military archbishop of Brazil
Leonardo de Miranda Pereira (* 1936), Catholic clergyman, bishop emeritus of Paracatu
Jésus Rocha (1939–2006), Catholic clergyman, Bishop of Oliveira
José Maria Carneiro (born 1942), football player
João da Mata de Ataíde (* 1954), track and field athlete
Hilma Caldeira (* 1972), volleyball player
Evanilson (born 1975), football player
Vladimir Brichta (* 1976), actor