Qualla: Anápolis https://qualla.com/anapolis en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/5/anapolis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Anápolis https://qualla.com/anapolis Anápolis: Introduction https://qualla.com/anapolis/ Photo credit original by RodrigoBrasileiro1822, CC BY-SA 4.0. The story insists that a mule got tired and a woman took it as a sign. In 1859, Ana das Dores was traveling from Jaraguá to Bonfim when one of her pack animals - the one carrying a statue of Saint Anne - refused to go any further. She promised to build a chapel on that exact spot. The mule moved again. Her son erected the chapel eleven years later. The settlement around it would become Anápolis, a name meaning city of Ana in Greek, and today it runs plants that produce more generic medicine than any other plant in Brazil and an assembly line that turns out the Hyundai Tucson. Not bad for a place whose origin story is an exhausted mule.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/5/anapolis-wp/6vj5-an-polis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Anápolis: From Tapirs to Streetlights https://qualla.com/anapolis/ Photo credit Autor desconhecido. Imagens obtidas através do Museu Histórico de Anápolis., Public domain. The first written records of the region come from the French naturalist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, who passed through in 1819 and noted the abundance of tapirs. The local name for the place - Tapirs' Farm - reflects what settlers found when they came hunting the animal they were s...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/5/anapolis-wp/6vj5-an-polis-from-tapirs-to-streetlights.mp3 0:06 2 full Anápolis: Between Two Capitals https://qualla.com/anapolis/ Photo credit Fronteira, CC BY-SA 4.0. Geography did most of the heavy lifting. Anápolis sits on the plateau between Brasília and Goiânia - 140 kilometers from the federal capital, 54 from the state capital - on the BR-060 highway that became a four-lane motorway and the BR-153 Belém-Brasília route that begins here. T...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/5/anapolis-wp/6vj5-an-polis-between-two-capitals.mp3 0:06 3 full Anápolis: Wings and Wheels https://qualla.com/anapolis/ Photo credit User:Renato Glauber, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Brazilian Air Force base at Anápolis - ALA 2 - houses one of the service's most important installations and a significant portion of the Amazon Surveillance System, SIVAM, which monitors airspace over the world's largest rainforest. The base protects the national capital 140 ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/5/anapolis-wp/6vj5-an-polis-wings-and-wheels.mp3 0:06 4 full Anápolis: An Industrial GDP https://qualla.com/anapolis/ Photo credit Adelano Lázaro, Public domain. Anápolis had a gross domestic product of 13.3 billion reais in 2015, second largest in the state behind Goiânia. The city hosts Hyundai and Mabel (cookies) and Vepeza and the generic medicine dynasty at Teuto Brasil. It produces 90,332 automobiles and 13,542 pickups' worth of tra...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/5/anapolis-wp/6vj5-an-polis-an-industrial-gdp.mp3 0:06 5 full Anápolis: The People Who Left https://qualla.com/anapolis/ Photo credit Texugo, CC BY-SA 3.0. Footballer Luciano came from Anápolis. So did Derley. Henrique Meirelles - who served as president of the Central Bank of Brazil under Lula and Finance Minister under Temer - grew up here before becoming one of the most powerful economic policymakers of his generation. Racing dri...

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