Lagoa Santa

Lagoa Santa

"For Lagoa Santa, a municipality in Goiás see Lagoa Santa, Goiás"

Lagoa Santa is a municipality and region in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is located 37 km north-northeast from Belo Horizonte and belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte.

The Danish palaeontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund discovered a cave filled with human bones (15 skeletons) and megafauna (very large mammals) dating to the Pleistocene era. Eugen Warming assisted Lund 1863-1866, and described the flora of the area and the adaptations of the plants to the hazards of cerrado - drought and fire - in a work that still stands as a paradigm of ecological study ('Lagoa Santa').

A century later, in the 1970s, French archeologist Annette Laming-Emperaire carried out excavations in the area and discovered the oldest human fossil in Brazil, over 11 thousand years old, given the nickname Luzia.

ee also

* List of municipalities in Minas Gerais

References

* Charles C. Mann, "1491", Random House, 2005.


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  • Lagoa Santa — ist der Name mehrerer Orte in Brasilien Gemeinde in Goiás, siehe Lagoa Santa (Goiás) Gemeinde in Minas Gerais, siehe Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais) Diese Seite ist eine Begriffsklärung zur Unterscheidung mehrerer mit demsel …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Lagoa Santa — 19° 38′ 00″ S 43° 53′ 00″ W / 19.633333, 43.883333 …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Lagoa Santa — 1 Admin ASC 2 Code Orig. name Lagoa Santa Country and Admin Code BR.15.3137601 BR 2 Admin ASC 2 Code Orig. name Lagoa Santa Country and Admin Code BR.29.5212253 BR …   World countries Adminstrative division ASC I-II

  • Lagoa Santa — Original name in latin Lagoa Santa Name in other language State code BR Continent/City America/Sao Paulo longitude 19.62722 latitude 43.88972 altitude 756 Population 38486 Date 2012 08 03 …   Cities with a population over 1000 database

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  • Lagoa Santa (Minas Gerais) — Minas Gerais, Lagoa Santa hervorgehoben Lagoa Santa ist eine Gemeinde mit 46.506 Einwohnern (Stand 2006) in Brasilien, Bundesstaat Minas Gerais an der gleichnamigen Lagune. Sie ist beliebter Ausflugsort vom 37 km entfernten Belo Horizonte. In den …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • lagoa santa man — ləˈgōəˈsantə noun Usage: usually capitalized L&S Etymology: from Lagoa Santa, city in Brazil, near where the remains were found : an extinct So. American man with a markedly long, narrow, and high vaulted cranium known from skeletal remains found …   Useful english dictionary

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