Qualla: Mundo Novo, Goiás https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias 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: Mundo Novo, Goiás https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias Mundo Novo, Goiás: Introduction https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias/ The name means New World - a hopeful label for what is mostly old pasture. Mundo Novo is one of the many frontier municipalities that Brazilian Goias produced in the second half of the twentieth century: a fazenda that someone subdivided, a settlement that formed, a district that got promoted, a municipality that holds on. It sits in the extreme northwestern corner of the state, where Goias tips toward the Araguaia and the population thins out to three people per square kilometer. Its story is the story of many interior Brazilian towns: a private ranch became a public place, and then the land quietly kept doing what it had always done.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/1/mundo-novo-goias-wp/6vs1-mundo-novo-goi-s-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mundo Novo, Goiás: Valentim Lourenco's Fazenda https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias/ In 1960 a rancher from Sao Paulo named Valentim Lourenco bought a tract of cerrado in northwestern Goias and named his property the Fazenda Nossa Senhora Aparecida, after the patron saint of Brazil. In 1963 he subdivided it into lots and laid out a settlement he called Mundo Novo...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/1/mundo-novo-goias-wp/6vs1-mundo-novo-goi-s-valentim-lourencos-fazenda.mp3 0:06 2 full Mundo Novo, Goiás: Isolated and Poor https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias/ The municipality sits in the Sao Miguel do Araguaia Microregion, a swath of northwestern Goias that the Brazilian planning agency recognizes as one of the state's least developed. The Rio Palmital runs north through the municipality and eventually joins the Araguaia, the major Am...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/1/mundo-novo-goias-wp/6vs1-mundo-novo-goi-s-isolated-and-poor.mp3 0:06 3 full Mundo Novo, Goiás: What the Farms Grow https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias/ The economy is cattle and small-scale agriculture, with 187,030 head of cattle on 744 farms spread across 148,562 hectares of working land. Pineapple, squash, cotton, rice, sugarcane, sesame, manioc, watermelon, and corn all grow in small plantings - corn being the only one to ex...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/1/mundo-novo-goias-wp/6vs1-mundo-novo-goi-s-what-the-farms-grow.mp3 0:06 4 full Mundo Novo, Goiás: Growing, Against the Trend https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias/ Most of the interior Goias municipalities in this part of the state have been losing population for decades. Mundo Novo has done something different. Its population grew quickly from 1991 through 2006, and between 1996 and 2007 the geometric rate was 1.99 percent per year - modes...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/1/mundo-novo-goias-wp/6vs1-mundo-novo-goi-s-growing-against-the-trend.mp3 0:06 5 full Mundo Novo, Goiás: The New World Keeps Waiting https://qualla.com/mundo-novo-goias/ A place named Mundo Novo carries a certain weight. The name promises reinvention, possibility, the clean break of a new beginning. The reality is more ordinary: a small town in an emptier part of the cerrado, with one hospital and twenty beds, one middle school, no higher educati...

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