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Polokwane Game Reserve, formerly Pietersburg Nature Reserve, [1] is situated near Polokwane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is 2800 ha in size, [1] making it one of the largest municipal game reserves in South Africa. [2] The reserve entrance is near its northern limit, about 1 km south of the N1 freeway. It is accessed via Silicon ...
Circuito Toninho da Matta is a 3.095 km (1.923 mi) street circuit located around the Mineirão stadium and Lake Pampulha in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. [1] The circuit was opened in August 2024 by hosting the seventh round of 2024 Stock Car Pro Series, and the race was named as BH Stock Festival.
Pampulha was created as a source of drinking water for the city of Belo Horizonte, but quickly became polluted. [ 3 ] Lake Pampulha covers 2.6 square kilometres (1.0 sq mi), has a volume of 14,000,000 cubic metres (18,000,000 cu yd), and a drainage basin of 97 square kilometres (37 sq mi).
A game reserve (also known as a game park) is a large area of land where wild animals are hunted in a controlled way for sport. [1] If hunting is prohibited, a game reserve may be considered a nature reserve; however, the focus of a game reserve is specifically the animals , whereas a nature reserve is also, if not equally, concerned with all ...
Greater Belo Horizonte, Brazil, is the name usually used to describe the Belo Horizonte metropolitan region, which is composed of 34 municipalities. As of 2013, [ 1 ] it is the third largest metropolitan area of Brazil with more than six million inhabitants; the largest city by population is Belo Horizonte .
One of the secrets of the Game Reserve is their spectacular waterfall, known as Tshihovhohovho Falls. The park is well stocked with game, including a fair number of white rhino in its lowveld zone. [2] The Soutpansberg or “Tha vhani ya muno” (mountain of salt) is in the traditional area of the Venda people. [3]
The mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte is one of the twelve mesoregions of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. It is composed of 105 municipalities, [1] distributed across 8 microregions. It is the most populous and densely populated of all the mesoregions of Minas Gerais. The largest city by population is Belo Horizonte.
The problems related to the distance of Confins to downtown Belo Horizonte were lessened by recent projects such as the improvement of the highway that links the city center to the airport (MG-10 highway), part of a larger project called Linha Verde (Green Line), which seeks to reduce the time needed to reach the airport. [8]