Brumadinho — Brumadinho Map Poster & Print

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Brumadinho Map Poster & Print

Seen from above, Brumadinho is less a grid than a set of streets following the valley floor. The Paraopeba River winds past the town, and roads climb out of it in every direction toward the ridges of the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, the iron-ore belt southwest of Belo Horizonte. Built-up blocks thin quickly into rural roads, estates and the long, looping tracks that follow the contours of the hills.

The municipality is known worldwide for Inhotim, an open-air contemporary art museum and botanical garden whose pavilions sit among landscaped lakes and forest. It is also remembered for the 2019 collapse of a mining tailings dam at Córrego do Feijão, one of the worst industrial disasters in Brazilian history. Both are part of how people now think of the name, and both are written into the land around the town.

A Brumadinho map poster shows that tension quietly: a compact centre, a river bending through it, and a network of roads that gives way to steep, uneven ground. In black and white, the hills show up in the way the streets avoid them, curving and doubling back rather than running straight. It is a portrait of a town shaped by its terrain first and its planners second.