Qualla: Linhares https://qualla.com/linhares en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:09 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/9/linhares-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Linhares https://qualla.com/linhares Linhares: Introduction https://qualla.com/linhares/ Photo credit Instituto Últimos Refúgios, CC BY-SA 4.0. The town was founded on August 22, 1800, by Europeans pushing their way into the Doce River country. Nine years later, the Botocudo people - whose land the settlers had occupied - destroyed the town in a war that left the forest to grow back over what little the founders had built. Linhares was refounded and slowly rebuilt. Two centuries later it is the largest municipality by area in the entire state of Espírito Santo, sprawling across 9,501 square kilometers - larger than some small countries - and holding 69 freshwater lakes, kilometers of beach, and some of the last large tracts of Atlantic Forest anywhere in Brazil.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/9/linhares-wp/7he9-linhares-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Linhares: A Landscape of Sixty-Nine Lakes https://qualla.com/linhares/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Aacj03 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. Linhares is a country of water. The town sits on the Doce River amid a scattering of 69 freshwater lagoons, some of them vast. The Juparanã Lagoon, 26 kilometers long and up to 5.5 kilometers wide, is the second-largest in water volume in all of Brazil. Others - Japaranã-Mirim, P...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/9/linhares-wp/7he9-linhares-a-landscape-of-sixty-nine-lakes.mp3 0:06 2 full Linhares: The Last Atlantic Forest https://qualla.com/linhares/ Photo credit MTur Destinos, Public domain. Linhares is home to one of the largest remnants of Atlantic Forest left in Brazil. The Sooretama Biological Reserve covers 27,858 hectares, created in 1982 when two older reserves were merged into one strictly protected unit. The Comboios Biological Reserve adds 785 hectares of f...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/9/linhares-wp/7he9-linhares-the-last-atlantic-forest.mp3 0:06 3 full Linhares: The Botocudo and What Came After https://qualla.com/linhares/ Photo credit MTur Destinos, Public domain. Before the Europeans arrived, the Doce River country was Botocudo land. The Botocudo had resisted Portuguese intrusion for centuries, and when settlers established a town here in 1800, the war was short. In 1809 the Botocudo destroyed the settlement, an act that was both military...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/9/linhares-wp/7he9-linhares-the-botocudo-and-what-came-after.mp3 0:06 4 full Linhares: The Turtles and the Surf https://qualla.com/linhares/ Photo credit MTur Destinos, Public domain. The Linhares coastline is still wild. Three beach communities - Pontal do Ipiranga, Povoação, and Regência - draw visitors for the surf and the deep-sea fishing. Regência, in particular, has become a fixture on the Brazilian surf map for its river-mouth waves where the Doce meets...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/h/e/9/linhares-wp/7he9-linhares-the-turtles-and-the-surf.mp3 0:06 5 full Linhares: Oil, Cattle, and a Count's Name https://qualla.com/linhares/ Photo credit MTur Destinos, Public domain. Linhares became its own municipality in 1945, when it was detached from Colatina. Today, the economy runs on commerce, agriculture, cattle, and offshore oil - petroleum reserves not far off this coast form part of the broader Espírito Santo-Campos Basin operations. The town is se...

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