Ghost Towns
📉 Economic decline

São João Marcos

Ancient city · Brazil

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
-22.800, -44.032
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Why it was abandoned

📉 Economic decline

Detected automatically from the text: It was depopulated and demolished in the 1940s due to the formation of the Ribeirão das Lages Dam for the production and supply of electricity to the city of Rio de Janeiro.

History

São João Marcos was a former municipality in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. It was depopulated and demolished in the 1940s due to the formation of the Ribeirão das Lages Dam for the production and supply of electricity to the city of Rio de Janeiro.

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