Serra do Curral, Mountain range in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Serra do Curral is a mountain range that stretches across Belo Horizonte and defines the urban skyline. The system features steep slopes and varying plant communities distributed across its ridges and side areas.

Indigenous peoples settled at the foot of the range for its springs, and during the gold era bandeirantes and tropeiros used it as a landmark on the Estrada Real toward Sabarabuçu. Abílio Barreto recorded that it was seen as a barrier against cold southern and hot northern winds, favouring settlement of Arraial do Curral del Rei. When Aarão Reis headed the Comissão Construtora da Nova Capital, he used the range as a reference and limit for the plan, and its streams fed reservoirs inaugurated in 1897.

The name comes from Curral del Rei, the cattle enclosure that gave the future capital its first name; the ridge itself was likened to a corral. In 1995 a plebiscite chose the range as the symbol of Belo Horizonte, ahead of the São Francisco de Assis church and the Pampulha lagoon. Since 1955 its summit has carried television transmission towers, the first being TV Itacolomi's antenna.

The range lies at the southern edge of Belo Horizonte, above the Mangabeiras neighbourhood, and is covered by the Parque Municipal das Mangabeiras and the Parque da Serra do Curral. Access is through these protected areas, so check opening conditions before setting out. The Belo Horizonte Peak reaches 1,390 m, and the slopes hold springs feeding the Córrego da Serra and Córrego Acaba Mundo.

The ridge's top holds itabirite and hematite, iron-rich rocks resistant to weathering, while softer dolomite lies lower down. Mining began before Belo Horizonte's founding: material dug here built the first public buildings inaugurated with the capital in 1897. From the 1960s, Ferrobel and later Vale's Águas Claras mine extracted ore, averaging 14 million tonnes a year until closure in 2002.