Ouro Preto

Ouro Preto, in , is one of 's best-preserved colonial towns and a UNESCO world heritage site. Among other historical and colonial cities of Minas Gerais, Ouro Preto is one of the most popular travel destinations in Brazil.
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  • Type: Town with 74,800 residents
  • Description: municipality in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Vila Rica de Ouro Preto” and “Vila Rica do Ouro Preto”
  • Historically known as: “Vila Rica”
  • Neighbors: , , and
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Church of Saint Francis of Assisi and Ouro Preto train station.

Church
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The is a Rococo Catholic church in Ouro Preto, . Its erection began in 1766 after a design by the architect and sculptor Antônio Francisco Lisboa, otherwise known as Aleijadinho.

Railway station
Photo: Paulo JC Nogueira, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Church
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The Minor Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, popularly called the , is one of the best known Catholic buildings among those erected during the Brazilian Gold Rush.

Ouro Preto

Latitude
-20.3857° or 20° 23′ 8″ south
Longitude
-43.5036° or 43° 30′ 13″ west
Population
74,800
Elevation
1,201 metres (3,940 feet)
United Nations Location Code
BR OPO
Open location code
58FRJF7W+PH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2035755491
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3455671
Wiki­data ID
Q188905
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Ouro Preto” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أورو براتو”
  • Basque: “Ouro Preto”
  • Belarusian: “Ару-Прэту”
  • Bengali: “ওরো প্রেতো”
  • Bishnupriya: “ঔরো প্রেটো”
  • Burmese: “အော်ရိုပရီတိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ouro Preto”
  • Cebuano: “Ouro Preto”
  • Chinese: “Ouro Preto”
  • Chinese: “欧鲁普雷图”
  • Chinese: “歐魯普雷圖”
  • Croatian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Czech: “Ouro Preto”
  • Danish: “Ouro Preto”
  • Dutch: “Ouro Preto”
  • Esperanto: “OUR”
  • Esperanto: “Ouro Preto”
  • Finnish: “Ouro Preto”
  • French: “Ouro Preto”
  • Galician: “Ouro Preto”
  • Georgian: “ორუ პრეტუ”
  • Georgian: “ორუ-პრეტუ”
  • German: “Ouro Preto”
  • Greek: “Όρου Πρέτο”
  • Greek: “Όρου Πρέτου”
  • Greek: “Ούρο Πρέτο”
  • Hebrew: “אורו פרטו”
  • Hungarian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Ido: “Ouro Preto”
  • Indonesian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Irish: “Ouro Preto”
  • Italian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Italian: “Vila Rica do Ouro Preto”
  • Japanese: “ヴィラ・リカ・デ・オウロ・プレット”
  • Japanese: “オーロ・プレット”
  • Japanese: “オウロ・プレット”
  • Japanese: “オウロプレット”
  • Japanese: “オウロプレト”
  • Kazakh: “Orw-Pretw”
  • Kazakh: “Ору-Прету”
  • Kazakh: “ورۋ-پرەتۋ”
  • Kirghiz: “Ору-Прету”
  • Korean: “빌라히카”
  • Korean: “오루프레투”
  • Korean: “오우로 프레토”
  • Korean: “오우루프레투”
  • Lithuanian: “Oro Pretas”
  • Macedonian: “Оуро Прето”
  • Maithili: “अउरो प्रेटो”
  • Malagasy: “Ouro Preto”
  • Maltese: “Ouro Preto”
  • Maltese: “Vila Rica do Ouro Preto”
  • Maltese: “Vila Rica”
  • Mazanderani: “اورو پرتو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ouro Preto”
  • Nepali: “अउरो प्रेटो”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ouro Preto”
  • Norwegian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ouro Preto”
  • Persian: “اورو پرتو”
  • Polish: “Ouro Preto”
  • Portuguese: “Ouro Preto”
  • Portuguese: “Vila Rica de Ouro Preto”
  • Portuguese: “Vila Rica do Ouro Preto”
  • Portuguese: “Vila Rica”
  • Romanian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Russian: “Ору-Прету”
  • Russian: “Оуру-Прету”
  • Serbian: “Oro Preto”
  • Serbian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Serbian: “Оро Прето”
  • Serbian: “Оуро Прето”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Silesian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Slovak: “Ouro Preto”
  • Slovenian: “Ouro Preto”
  • Spanish: “Oro Prieto”
  • Spanish: “Ouro Preto”
  • Spanish: “Vila Rica de Ouro Preto”
  • Spanish: “Vila Rica do Ouro Preto”
  • Spanish: “Villarica de Oro Prieto”
  • Swedish: “Ouro Preto”
  • Tagalog: “Ouro Preto”
  • Thai: “Ouro Preto”
  • Thai: “โอรูเปรตู”
  • Turkish: “Ouro Preto”
  • Ukrainian: “Ору-Прету”
  • Urdu: “اورو پریٹو”
  • Vietnamese: “Ouro Preto”
  • Volapük: “Ouro Preto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ouro Preto”
  • Wu Chinese: “欧鲁普雷图”
  • “Ouro Preto”

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