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3 unusual facts about Ouro Preto


Ouro Preto

The Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (Federal University of Ouro Preto or UFOP) has approximately 10,000 students in the city.

The street party is also celebrated in neighbouring towns such as Mariana.

Protocol of Ouro Preto

The 1994 Protocol of Ouro Preto was the continuation of economic policies setting up a customs union, as set forth four years earlier in the Treaty of Asuncion by the four original Mercosur states.


Aleijadinho

The figures were later painted by Manoel da Costa Ataíde, who also painted (1828) the ceiling of Lisboa's Church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Ouro Preto.

Lima Barreto

His father was a typographer and a monarchist who had close connections to Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo, the Viscount of Ouro Preto, who would later become Lima Barreto's godfather.

Santo Antônio do Grama

Its latitude is 20.628/20°18'50" S and the longitude is 42.101/42°36'32" W. Santo Antônio do Grama is linked with the BR-262 which links with Ouro Preto.

Yuliana Glinka

With her father and sisters she traveled with Dom Pedro to Minas Gerais, visiting Ouro Preto and Diamantina, both very old cities with mystical associations.


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Crocoite

Other localities which have yielded good crystallized specimens are Congonhas do Campo near Ouro Preto in Brazil, Luzon in the Philippines, Mutare in Mashonaland, near Menzies in Western Australia, plus Brazil, Germany and South Africa.