Tiradentes, MG: Rio das Mortes gold village

Where: Brazil · South America · approx. -21.11, -44.17 (vicinity only)

Why this spot: Sao Jose del Rei, founded on a 1702 gold strike near the Rio das Mortes, IPHAN national heritage since 1938, reached by preserved steam railway

What turns up: eyes-only: 18th-century gold-town streets, Matriz de Santo Antonio gilded church, colonial stone fountain (1749), steam train to Sao Joao del-Rei

Access: Restricted.

IPHAN tombamento since 1938 covers the architectural and urban ensemble: eyes-only, no digging or detecting in or around the protected core

Satellite view, historic-map overlays, tide/flow context and field notes are in the app. Exact research detail is part of Pro.