Qualla: Itaúnas https://qualla.com/itaunas en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Itaúnas https://qualla.com/itaunas Itaúnas: Introduction https://qualla.com/itaunas/ The old town is under the sand. Sometime in the 1960s, the dunes on the coast of northern Espírito Santo stopped being a backdrop and became an avalanche in slow motion, pouring over houses, streets, and finally the church tower, until there was nothing left but a smooth white horizon where a village used to be. The people moved across the Itaúnas River and started again. Today, the new Itaúnas sits on the river's far bank, a small beach town with a big reputation for dancing all night to an accordion, a triangle, and a drum called a zabumba.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/z/itaunas-wk/7hez-ita-nas-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Itaúnas: The Town the Dunes Ate https://qualla.com/itaunas/ Itaúnas sits about 260 kilometers north of Vitória, in the last reach of Espírito Santo before Bahia begins. The coast here is a ribbon of pale sand backed by towering dunes, and the old village made the mistake of standing too close. Deforestation upriver and shifting wind patte...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/z/itaunas-wk/7hez-ita-nas-the-town-the-dunes-ate.mp3 0:06 2 full Itaúnas: Forró in the Sand https://qualla.com/itaunas/ Every July the new village turns into a dance floor. The National Forró Festival brings thousands of people to Itaúnas for a week of accordion, triangle, and zabumba - the hand-drum that keeps the pulse. Forró is a Northeastern Brazilian tradition, a dance for couples held close ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/z/itaunas-wk/7hez-ita-nas-forr-in-the-sand.mp3 0:06 3 full Itaúnas: A Park of Seven Worlds https://qualla.com/itaunas/ Itaúnas State Park, created in the 1990s and part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves that UNESCO named a World Heritage Site, wraps the village in 3,600 hectares of protected coast. In a single afternoon you can cross seven ecosystems: sea beach, river, swamp, mangrove, s...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/z/itaunas-wk/7hez-ita-nas-a-park-of-seven-worlds.mp3 0:06 4 full Itaúnas: Where the Turtles Come Ashore https://qualla.com/itaunas/ The beach between river and state border is one of Brazil's quiet wonders, a long unbroken strand with almost no development. Sea turtles haul themselves ashore here in season to dig nests, and the Tamar Project - the national sea turtle conservation effort - works this coast, ma...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/z/itaunas-wk/7hez-ita-nas-where-the-turtles-come-ashore.mp3 0:06 5 full Itaúnas: The Village at the End of the Road https://qualla.com/itaunas/ Getting to Itaúnas is part of the charm. From Vitória, you drive north on the BR-101, cut east at Conceição da Barra, and finish the trip on 27 kilometers of dirt road that dissolves into pure sand near the village. There is no airport, no bus terminal, no paved arrival. The tele...

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