Paracatu
Paracatu is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The name is from Tupi para + katu, thus meaning 'good river'.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 94,000 residents
- Description: municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil
- Also known as: “Paracatu, Minas Gerais”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paracatu mine.
Paracatu mine
Quarry
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 3.0 br.
The Paracatu mine is one of the largest gold surface mines in Brazil, and also in the world. The mine is located in Minas Gerais state, in the southcentral region of Brazil.
Paracatu
- Categories: municipality of Brazil and locality
- Location: Minas Gerais, Southeast, Brazil, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-17.2174° or 17° 13′ 3″ southLongitude
-46.8708° or 46° 52′ 15″ westPopulation
94,000Elevation
642 metres (2,106 feet)Open location code
58JMQ4MH+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 246673160OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
6321631Wikidata ID
Q1755739
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Paracatu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باراكاتو”
- Basque: “Paracatu”
- Bishnupriya: “পারাকাটু”
- Catalan: “Paracatu”
- Cebuano: “Paracatu”
- Chechen: “Паракату”
- Chinese: “Paracatu”
- Chinese: “帕拉卡图”
- Dutch: “Paracatu”
- Esperanto: “Paracatu”
- French: “Paracatu”
- Georgian: “პარაკატუ”
- German: “Paracatu”
- Hungarian: “Paracatu”
- Irish: “Paracatu”
- Italian: “Paracatu”
- Kazakh: “Parakatw”
- Kazakh: “Паракату”
- Kazakh: “پاراكاتۋ”
- Malagasy: “Paracatu”
- Mazanderani: “پاراکاتو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Paracatu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Paracatu”
- Norwegian: “Paracatu”
- Persian: “پاراکاتو”
- Polish: “Paracatu”
- Portuguese: “Paracatu”
- Romanian: “Paracatu, Minas Gerais”
- Romanian: “Paracatu”
- Russian: “Паракату”
- Spanish: “Paracatu”
- Swedish: “Paracatu”
- Tatar: “Паракату”
- Turkish: “Paracatu”
- Vietnamese: “Paracatu”
- Volapük: “Paracatu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paracatu, Minas Gerais”
- Waray (Philippines): “Paracatu”
- Welsh: “Paracatu”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Paracatu”. Photo: Samuel Tedinho, CC BY-SA 3.0.