Qualla: Guiratinga https://qualla.com/guiratinga 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: Guiratinga https://qualla.com/guiratinga Guiratinga: Introduction https://qualla.com/guiratinga/ A woman washing dishes in the Cassununga River in 1908 felt something hard strike the enamel. She picked up the pebble, set it aside, and finished her work. That pebble, sent to be analyzed at the nearby Boa Vista farm, turned out to be a diamond - and with that single household accident, the history of a town called Lageado began. The stone sat between dish and rinse water for a moment before Jane Frances of Jesus noticed it, but what followed was a rush of prospectors from Goiás, Minas Gerais, and the northeastern state of Bahia, pouring into eastern Mato Grosso in hopes of striking the same luck.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/1/f/guiratinga-wp/6v1f-guiratinga-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Guiratinga: The Bororo and the Missionaries https://qualla.com/guiratinga/ The land the diamond seekers rushed into was not empty. The Bororo people had lived in this stretch of the Brazilian interior for centuries, and it was a Bororo guide who first told João José de Moraes - a miner nicknamed Cajango - about the glittering pebbles at the confluence o...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/1/f/guiratinga-wp/6v1f-guiratinga-the-bororo-and-the-missionaries.mp3 0:06 2 full Guiratinga: White Heron https://qualla.com/guiratinga/ The name Guiratinga is Tupi-Guarani, stitched together from guira (bird) and tinga (white) - the white heron that still stalks the wetlands of Mato Grosso, picking through shallows with careful precision. The town didn't start with that name. It was called Lageado after a local s...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/1/f/guiratinga-wp/6v1f-guiratinga-white-heron.mp3 0:06 3 full Guiratinga: A City the Miners Built https://qualla.com/guiratinga/ Unusually for a mining town, Guiratinga was planned. Augusto Alves, who arrived with his family in 1920, laid out lots on a grid and required new arrivals to build within its lines. The rush that followed the diamond discovery could have thrown up the usual sprawl of shacks and c...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/1/f/guiratinga-wp/6v1f-guiratinga-a-city-the-miners-built.mp3 0:06 4 full Guiratinga: The Diocese and the Cerrado https://qualla.com/guiratinga/ The Diocese of Guiratinga covers roughly 45,000 square kilometers of southeastern Mato Grosso - a sweep of cerrado, gallery forest, and the rolling hills that feed the Araguaia basin. From the air, you see the mosaic of a cattle country that grew up alongside the mines: pasture b...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/1/f/guiratinga-wp/6v1f-guiratinga-the-diocese-and-the-cerrado.mp3 0:06 5 full Guiratinga: What Remains of the Rush https://qualla.com/guiratinga/ The diamonds didn't last. The boom that created Guiratinga also created Santa Rita do Araguaia, Poxoréo, and a string of smaller towns, and most of them shrank once the gravel no longer yielded. Guiratinga stuck - partly because Alves had built it to stay, partly because cattle r...

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