Leg 48 SBBH - Belo Horizonte (Brazil) to SBVT - Vitoria (Brazil)
SBBH - Airport Info
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ICAO code: SBBH
Airport name: Pampulha Airport
Location: Belo Horizonte Brazil
Useful information
Airport elevation: 2589'
Time zone: UTC-3
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: 8333'
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
VOR/DME on field NDB on field
Belo Horizonte Info
Belo Horizonte, city in southeastern Brazil, capital of Minas Gerais State. It is an industrial, administrative, and cultural center of a great mining area rich in iron ore, gold, manganese, nickel, and precious stones. Iron and steel, refined metal, textiles, and transportation equipment are manufactured here. Belo Horizonte is laid out on a grand scale, with broad, tree-lined avenues radiating from a large park. The city, which contains one of the world's largest soccer stadiums, is the seat of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1927), the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (1958), and a school of fine arts (1954). In the Pampulha district is the noted Chapel of São Francisco, designed by Oscar Niemeyer Soares Filho; it houses paintings by the Brazilian artist Cándido Portinari.
The city was founded in 1895 and replaced Ouro Prêto as the state capital in 1897. It was Brazil's first planned city and rapidly became a major economic center for the interior of the country. Large residential and industrial districts were developed in the 1940s. Population (2000) 2,238,526.
SBVT - Airport Info
ICAO code: SBVT
Airport name: Goiabera Airport
Location: Vitoria Brazil
Useful information
Airport elevation: 11'
Time zone: UTC-3
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: 5741'
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
VOR/DME on field NDB 4.7nm from field
Vitoria Info
Vitória is a warmth and sunny tourist island very close to the continent. It is the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, which is located in the northern frontier of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Vitória's location, climate and tourist attractions present a unique combination allowing one to foresee it as a clear SBAC holding success and a memorable experience for the conference delegates and attendees.
Thanks to its proximity to other important Brazilian's capitals, such as Rio de Janeiro (50 minutes flight) and São Paulo (1:20 hour flight), attractive surroundings and tourist infrastructure, Vitória regularly holds major technical conferences. An IFIP/IEEE sponsored event has been held in Vitória in 1994 (IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Balanced Automation Systems - BASYS-95) and many important Brazilian conferences have been organized in Vitória since 1990 (X Congress of the Brazilian Computer Society - SBC-90, IX Brazilian Congress of Automatics - SBA-92, XLVI Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science - SBPC-94, XVII National Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics - CNMAC-94, III Brazilin Symposium on Intelligent Automation - SBAI-97, XVII Brazilian Symposium on Telecommunications - SBT-99). In all these events, UFES faculty members provided key participation and/or coordination thanks to the resources available to them at UFES main campus. The record participation in an event in Vitória has been set by SBPC-94, which had more than 5.000 attendees. Major symposiums gather on average 300 to 400 attendees, with plenty of hotel options available.
Vitória's airport is less than 10 kilometers away from UFES and several hotels, offering researchers the possibility to stop over, visit, or give seminars at the campus UFES main campus. Vitória's proximity to Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo also allows researchers to visit other important Brazilian Universities, such as the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and University of São Paulo.