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Serra Pelada

Serra Pelada is a Brazilian village and district of the Municipality of , in the southeast of State. A former boomtown, it is best known for its open-pit mine, which operated from 1980 until the early 90s and is now a polluted lake.
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  • Type: Village with 1,300 residents
  • Description: former large gold mine in Brazil
  • Also known as: “Vila de Serra Pelada”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Serra Pelada.

Hospital
Photo: Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hospital.

Serra Pelada

Latitude
-5.94649° or 5° 56′ 47″ south
Longitude
-49.66121° or 49° 39′ 40″ west
Population
1,300
Elevation
309 metres (1,014 feet)
IATA airport code
RSG
United Nations Location Code
BR RSG
Open location code
686G383Q+CG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 416653290
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
8299013
Wiki­data ID
Q1319878
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Spanish—“Serra Pelada” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “塞拉佩拉達”
  • Chinese: “露天山”
  • Dutch: “Serra Pelada”
  • Esperanto: “Serra Pelada”
  • Finnish: “Serra Pelada”
  • French: “Serra Pelada”
  • German: “Serra Pelada”
  • Hungarian: “Serra Pelada”
  • Italian: “Serra Pelada”
  • Portuguese: “Serra Pelada”
  • Portuguese: “Vila dos Garimpeiros”
  • Russian: “Золотая лихорадка в Серра Пеладе”
  • Russian: “Золотая лихорадка в Серра-Пеладе”
  • Spanish: “Serra Pelada”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sub Prefeitura de Serra Pelada and Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Angela Maria Correa Bezerra.

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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 “Serra Pelada”. Photo: Hallel, CC BY-SA 4.0.