Qualla: Itapuranga https://qualla.com/itapuranga 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/h/r/itapuranga-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Itapuranga https://qualla.com/itapuranga Itapuranga: Introduction https://qualla.com/itapuranga/ Photo credit Prefeitura de Itapuranga, Public domain. In 1933 a small group of Dominican friars walked from the old colonial town of Goiás to the left bank of the Rio Canastra, unpacked their altar supplies, and said mass under the spreading branches of a Xixá tree. That was the beginning of Itapuranga - which at the time was called Xixá, after the tree itself, because the tree had been the church. A decade later, the settlement took a new name drawn from the Tupi language: itapuranga, meaning red rock or place of pretty stones. The friars stayed. A general store opened. A public school went up. A road pushed north to the old capital. By 1953 the town had enough critical mass to detach from Goiás and become its own municipality.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/r/itapuranga-wp/6vhr-itapuranga-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Itapuranga: Capital of the Valley https://qualla.com/itapuranga/ Photo credit Prefeitura de Itapuranga, Public domain. Local boosters call Itapuranga the capital of the Vale do São Patrício - the Saint Patrick's Valley - a name the region's Irish-Brazilian history explains. The valley is one of the most fertile corners of the Goiás plateau, which is why the Dominicans acquired the land in the fir...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/r/itapuranga-wp/6vhr-itapuranga-capital-of-the-valley.mp3 0:06 2 full Itapuranga: Sugarcane and Corn https://qualla.com/itapuranga/ Photo credit Prefeitura de Itapuranga, Public domain. By 2006 the municipality had 1,441 farms spread across 65,894 hectares, of which 11,000 were cropland and more than 40,000 were pasture. The cattle herd reached 134,000 head. The most important crop was sugarcane - 9,400 hectares planted and 855,000 tons harvested that year - fol...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/r/itapuranga-wp/6vhr-itapuranga-sugarcane-and-corn.mp3 0:06 3 full Itapuranga: Two Seasons, Mild Extremes https://qualla.com/itapuranga/ Photo credit Prefeitura de Itapuranga, Public domain. The rainy season runs October through April. The dry season fills the rest of the calendar. Temperatures cover a wide band - as cool as 11°C on a dry-season dawn and as hot as 38°C in late afternoon before the rains break - but the average settles comfortably at 25°C. Vegetation ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/r/itapuranga-wp/6vhr-itapuranga-two-seasons-mild-extremes.mp3 0:06 4 full Itapuranga: The Red Rock https://qualla.com/itapuranga/ Photo credit Prefeitura de Itapuranga, Public domain. The name itapuranga is a compound of two Tupi elements - ita (rock or stone) and puranga (pretty, or in some readings red) - pointing at the local geology. The Rio Canastra runs near the old settlement, its stones worn smooth by the seasonal floods. The landscape around town is t...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/r/itapuranga-wp/6vhr-itapuranga-the-red-rock.mp3 0:06 5 full Itapuranga: A College Town in Miniature https://qualla.com/itapuranga/ Photo credit Prefeitura de Itapuranga, Public domain. For a municipality its size, Itapuranga runs a respectable education system: 27 schools serving about 6,800 students, plus a campus of UEG - the state university - hosting the Faculdade de Educação, Ciências e Letras de Itapuranga. Literacy has climbed to 82.9 percent. Five hospi...

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