Zoo
Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte
🇧🇷 Brazil
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Brazil 60 spp. present
19.860° S 44.011° W
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Essentials
Entrance
—
Tourism
High
Species present
60
speciesOpened
1957
Size
Large
Visit
Getting there
- Address
- Avenida Otacílio Negrão de Lima 8000, 31365-450 Belo Horizonte
Who runs it
- Run by
- Fundação Zoobotânica de BH
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Before you go
Where is Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte?
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte is a zoo or wildlife park in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, at Avenida Otacílio Negrão de Lima 8000, 31365-450 Belo Horizonte. Its coordinates are 19.860° S, 44.011° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Serra da Canastra National Park, about 278 km away.
What animals can you see at Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte?
60 species
Citizen-science photos record 60 species at Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte, including Greater Rhea, Corn Snake, Reticulated Python, Neotropical Rattlesnake and Boa Constrictor. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte in the wild?
Greater Rhea: Emas National Park
Some of the animals photographed at Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte also live in the parks and cities we cover: Greater Rhea (about 50% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Emas National Park), Corn Snake (about 40% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Big Cypress National Preserve) and Reticulated Python (about 30% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Khao Sok National Park).
When did Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte open and how big is it?
Opened 1957, 93 ha
Zoological Garden of Belo Horizonte, a zoo or wildlife park in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, opened in 1957 and covers about 93 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 60 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Wikidata (CC0) · iNaturalist observers