Qualla: Anicuns https://qualla.com/anicuns en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Anicuns https://qualla.com/anicuns Anicuns: Introduction https://qualla.com/anicuns/ The bird is extinct now. Known to the Guanicuns people as the anicuns, it had feathers bright enough for ceremonial adornment and a song clear enough to imitate. The Guanicuns believed that eating the bird's tongue would give them its voice, so they ate the tongues and made ornaments from the plumage, and when the Portuguese arrived hunting gold in these river valleys, they eventually named a settlement for the species the original inhabitants had loved. Anicuns, central Goias, Brazil. The gold ran out long ago. The bird followed. Only the town remains, a community of fewer than 18,000 people on the right bank of the Rio dos Bois, still pronouncing the name of something no one has seen alive in generations.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/6/anicuns-wp/6vh6-anicuns-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Anicuns: Gold in the River https://qualla.com/anicuns/ The Portuguese came for alluvial gold in the streams, and they stayed when the gold ran out. By 1841 Anicuns was already a district of the municipality of Palmeiras. It became a municipality in its own right in 1911. In 1931 - for reasons the records do not fully explain, but whi...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/6/anicuns-wp/6vh6-anicuns-gold-in-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full Anicuns: Shoes and Sugarcane https://qualla.com/anicuns/ Anicuns does not have a dramatic economy. It has a diverse one. Six brickworks make bricks and tiles. Sixteen small shoe factories specialize in leather boots, the footwear of the cerrado cattle country. Dairy and beef cattle graze on the 33,000 hectares of natural pasture. There...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/6/anicuns-wp/6vh6-anicuns-shoes-and-sugarcane.mp3 0:06 3 full Anicuns: The Canoe Championship https://qualla.com/anicuns/ Every year the Rio dos Bois becomes a stadium. The Copa Brasil de Canoagem - the Brazil Canoe Cup - runs for three days through Anicuns, accompanied by parades, cultural activities, and regional music. It is among the most important canoeing competitions in the country, which is ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/6/anicuns-wp/6vh6-anicuns-the-canoe-championship.mp3 0:06 4 full Anicuns: Cliffs and Waterfalls https://qualla.com/anicuns/ The countryside around Anicuns has more scenery than its flat farmland suggests. Poco do Boi de Ouro - the Well of the Golden Ox - is a crater 30 meters deep that belongs to local legend as much as local geology. Serra do Felipe is used for hang gliding, catching the thermals tha...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/6/anicuns-wp/6vh6-anicuns-cliffs-and-waterfalls.mp3 0:06 5 full Anicuns: A Town That Kept Its Name https://qualla.com/anicuns/ Anicuns has shrunk. In 1980 it had 23,150 residents. By 2007 the population had fallen to 17,705. The negative growth rate of 0.13 percent is not dramatic, but it reflects a trend common to interior Goias: young people move to Goiania, which is only 86 kilometers away by the GO-0...

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