Pampulha
Paths outward
- Location
- Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Year
- 1943
- Typology
- Landscape & Urban
- Materials
- Bamboo & Paper, Ceramic, Concrete, Glass, Metal cladding, Stone, Timber
- Context
- Modernism, Brazilian Modernism
- Map
- Open location
Pampulha is an administrative region in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It is one of nine administrative regions of Belo Horizonte, and occupies 47.13 kilometres (29.29 mi) in the northeast of the city. It has a population of 350,000 and a population density of 3.08 per square kilometer. The center of the Pampulha is occupied by Lake Pampulha, an artificial lake constructed in the early 1940s by Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, later president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. The Pampulha administrative region is further subdivided into 29 neighborhoods (bairros), one of which is also called Pampulha.
