Qualla: Corumbá de Goiás https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias 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/m/corumba-de-goias-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Corumbá de Goiás https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias Corumbá de Goiás: Introduction https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias/ Photo credit Pedroolif, CC BY-SA 4.0. On weekends during the Festival of the Cavalhadas, the colonial streets of Corumbá de Goiás fill with horsemen in medieval costumes charging down dirt lanes in mock combat. The Cavalhadas - a Brazilian tradition descended from Iberian reenactments of the Reconquista - pits teams of riders in Christian and Moorish costume in a choreographed battle that ends, inevitably and ceremonially, with the conversion of the Moors. Corumbá and its larger neighbor Pirenopolis are two of the best places in Brazil to see the festival. The town was founded in 1731 by gold miners searching for ore at the confluence of two rivers, and almost three centuries later, its colonial houses, cobblestone streets, and baroque church still stand as they did when the tax collectors were counting nuggets.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/m/corumba-de-goias-wp/6vjm-corumb-de-goi-s-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Corumbá de Goiás: Gold at the Confluence https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias/ Photo credit Marcosviniciusrs, CC BY-SA 4.0. The settlement of Corumbá de Goiás began in 1731 when Portuguese and Brazilian prospectors panned the waters where the Corumbá River meets the Bagagem River and found placer gold. The bandeirantes - slave-hunting and gold-seeking expeditions from Sao Paulo - had pushed into the G...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/m/corumba-de-goias-wp/6vjm-corumb-de-goi-s-gold-at-the-confluence.mp3 0:06 2 full Corumbá de Goiás: The Status Game https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias/ Photo credit Vinicius Cunha, CC BY-SA 3.0. Corumbá's administrative history reads like a ladder with loose rungs. Raised to the status of vila - roughly equivalent to a township - in 1849, the town lost that status in 1863, demoted to a district of Meia Ponte, which is today called Pirenopolis. For nearly forty years Coru...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/m/corumba-de-goias-wp/6vjm-corumb-de-goi-s-the-status-game.mp3 0:06 3 full Corumbá de Goiás: The Pirineus Park https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias/ Photo credit This is a work (CG or photograph) by Danilo Prudêncio Silva. My Flickr., CC BY-SA 3.0. Part of the 2,833-hectare Pirineus State Park falls within Corumbá's municipal boundaries. The park was created in 1987 to protect the Serra dos Pirineus - a ridge named by early settlers who thought the three prominent rocky peaks resembled the European Pyrenees, though the rese...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/m/corumba-de-goias-wp/6vjm-corumb-de-goi-s-the-pirineus-park.mp3 0:06 4 full Corumbá de Goiás: Cavalhadas https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias/ Photo credit Texugo, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Cavalhadas festival is the reason outsiders who know Corumbá de Goiás know it at all. The tradition arrived in the eighteenth century with Portuguese settlers and has been performed in Goiás since at least the early 1800s. For three days each year - typically around Pentecost...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/j/m/corumba-de-goias-wp/6vjm-corumb-de-goi-s-cavalhadas.mp3 0:06 5 full Corumbá de Goiás: What the Town Kept https://qualla.com/corumba-de-goias/ Photo credit Marcosviniciusrs, CC BY-SA 4.0. Modern Corumbá has 22 schools with 2,413 students, two hospitals with 29 beds, 59,000 head of cattle, and 841 farms totaling 55,844 hectares. Corn is the main crop, with 1,300 planted hectares producing 5,200 tons. A single dairy operates. Two financial institutions serve the tow...

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