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Ouro Preto

Gold-rush town in Minas Gerais, Brazil, with baroque churches and a colonial street plan on steep hills. Its wealth came from the gold fields of the 1690s.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1698 CE mainstream
  gold discovered; Vila Rica grows as the centre of the mining rush source
• 1980 CE mainstream
  inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List source

Where

20.3900° S, 43.5000° W

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouro_Preto
• https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/124/

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