Qualla: Itajuba https://qualla.com/itajuba 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/u/p/8/itajuba-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Itajuba https://qualla.com/itajuba Itajuba: Introduction https://qualla.com/itajuba/ Photo credit Py4nf, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the morning of March 18, 1819, a priest and about eighty families walked down off a mountainside in southeastern Minas Gerais and started a new village on the Sapucai River. The old settlement was too remote, Father Lourenco da Costa Moreira had decided, too far from water, too deep in the woods of the Serra da Mantiqueira for anyone to make a living there. So they moved. They carried the religious images from the old church. The next day Moreira said the first mass in the new location. The new settlement took the name Itajuba, which in Tupi means water that falls on the rock, a reference to the small waterfalls scattered through the surrounding hills.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/p/8/itajuba-wp/6up8-itajuba-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Itajuba: A Priest Who Read the Land Correctly https://qualla.com/itajuba/ Photo credit Py4nf, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Puri-Coroados people had lived in this stretch of the Mantiqueira foothills for generations before the Portuguese arrived. When Father Moreira came to the parish of Delfim Moreira in January 1819, what he found was a nearly abandoned outpost called Soledade de Itajuba, isolat...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/p/8/itajuba-wp/6up8-itajuba-a-priest-who-read-the-land-correctly.mp3 0:06 2 full Itajuba: The Engineering University That Defined a City https://qualla.com/itajuba/ Photo credit Evelimlamaiara, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1913, the town took a step that would shape its future more than anyone could have anticipated. The Federal University of Itajuba, UNIFEI, was founded as an engineering school. More than a century later, it remains one of the most respected technical universities in Brazil, pa...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/p/8/itajuba-wp/6up8-itajuba-the-engineering-university-that-defined-a-city.mp3 0:06 3 full Itajuba: The Helicopters https://qualla.com/itajuba/ Photo credit RONALDO DOS SANTOS SOUZA, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the industrial side, Itajuba manufactures things that fly and things that shoot. Helibras, Brazil's only helicopter manufacturer, operates here. A subsidiary of Airbus Helicopters, the Itajuba plant assembles rotorcraft for the Brazilian armed forces and civilian customers acr...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/p/8/itajuba-wp/6up8-itajuba-the-helicopters.mp3 0:06 4 full Itajuba: The Rifles and the Knives https://qualla.com/itajuba/ Photo credit Mateus S. Figueiredo, CC BY-SA 4.0. The other strategic industry in town is IMBEL, the Industria de Material Belico do Brasil, the state-owned Brazilian Warfare Material Industry. The Itajuba plant manufactures a Brazilian-licensed version of the FN FAL assault rifle, which for decades was the standard rifle of the...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/p/8/itajuba-wp/6up8-itajuba-the-rifles-and-the-knives.mp3 0:06 5 full Itajuba: What the Mantiqueira Grows https://qualla.com/itajuba/ Photo credit DollyTeckel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Around the industrial and academic core, a traditional agricultural region continues to produce coffee, bananas, and potatoes, centered on the cooler country around the nearby city of Maria da Fe. The climate at these elevations runs wet in summer and dry in winter, with morning ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/p/8/itajuba-wp/6up8-itajuba-what-the-mantiqueira-grows.mp3 0:06 6 full Itajuba: From Above https://qualla.com/itajuba/ Photo credit Gabrielrvallim, CC BY-SA 3.0. From cruising altitude, Itajuba sits in a classic Mantiqueira valley configuration: a green agricultural basin between folded mountain ridges, with the Sapucai River running through the middle and the town itself a compact urban grid in the broader of the valley floors. The Helib...

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