Diamantina
Município de Diamantina
"Cidade Colonial dos Diamantes"
Diamantina
"Capital do Jequitinhonha" |
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Coordinates | 18 ° 14 ′ S , 43 ° 36 ′ W | ||
Location of the municipality in the state of Minas Gerais | |||
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founding | 1713 (settlement) (307 years) March 6, 1831 (town charter) (189 years) |
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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) |
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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 .
Town twinning
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
gallery
Web links
- City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council m Câmara Municipal website (Brazilian Portuguese)
- Diamantina - Panorama , IBGE , updated statistics
- Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Diamantina - Panorama. IBGE , accessed August 26, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).