Diamantino is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring ...

state in

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. It has a population of 22,178 and is near

Diamantino River The Diamantino River is a river of Mato Grosso state in western Brazil. See also *List of rivers of Mato Grosso ReferencesBrazilian Ministry of Transport
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. It is above sea-level, and sits at the foot of the Mato Grosso plateau. Its history dates from 1730 as a

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mining Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the Earth, usually from an ore body, lode, vein, seam, reef, or placer deposit. The exploitation of these deposits for raw material is based on the economic via ...

settlement. In 1746,

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s were discovered, which made the town's population swell and prosper. The amount of diamonds was greatly overestimated, and the town population steadily declined. Near the city is the South American pole of inaccessibility, which means that no place in South America is as far from the nearest ocean as this point. The closest ocean is the

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, at the Peruvian-Chilean border.

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Municipalities in Mato Grosso {{matoGrosso-geo-stub