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      <title>Alexânia: Introduction</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1957, a landowner named Alex Abdallah did something unusual on the dusty plateau between Anápolis and the new federal capital being carved out of the cerrado. He surveyed his property along the highway, carved it into lots, and started giving them away. No cost. Settle here, and the land is yours. The town that grew from that gift took its founder's name - Alexânia - and today it sits along the four-lane GO-060 as one of central Goiás's more unlikely success stories, a stopover that became a destination in its own right.]]></description>
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      <title>Alexânia: A Town Born of Brasília</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The timing was everything. Juscelino Kubitschek's crews were already raising Brasília out of the red Goiás dirt, 130 kilometers to the northeast. Abdallah's lots landed in the path of everything that would need to flow to the new capital: workers, supplies, trucks, dreams. The se...]]></description>
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      <title>Alexânia: The Cachaça Corridor</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Drive the GO-060 through Alexânia today and you pass something most travelers miss: one of central Brazil's most concentrated clusters of artisanal cachaça distilleries. This is not the industrial pinga churned out by the liter in São Paulo factories. Cambeba, Cachaça do Ministro...]]></description>
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      <title>Alexânia: Weekend Country</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Something else happened when Brasília became a city of millions. Its civil servants and bureaucrats needed somewhere to escape the federal grind, and Alexânia - with its forested riverbanks along the Areias and its relatively unspoiled cerrado - offered an answer within easy driv...]]></description>
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      <title>Alexânia: Rising in the Rankings</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 2003, Alexânia ranked 51st among 58 Goiás municipalities on the state's development index, a measure combining economic dynamism, wealth, and quality of life. One year later, it had vaulted to 18th. A jump like that - 33 places in a single year - reflects something real happen...]]></description>
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      <title>Alexânia: The Cerrado Underneath</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Strip away the ranches and the highway frontage and the underlying landscape is cerrado - the tropical savanna biome that covers much of central Brazil, full of twisted trees and wiry grasses adapted to seasonal fire. Gallery forests line the Areias River and its tributaries, kee...]]></description>
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