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Sabará is a village only 13 km east (staight line) from the center of Belo Horizonte, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Belo Horizonte is the highlands, 330 km north of Rio de Janeiro. In Sabará a gold foundry was located which was famed because of palladium contamination which rendered the gold brittle. At the site of the foundry is now a historical museum, Museu do Ouro (Museum of Gold). Sabará is not shown on this map, but on the next.