Qualla: Mutunópolis https://qualla.com/mutunopolis 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: Mutunópolis https://qualla.com/mutunopolis Mutunópolis: Introduction https://qualla.com/mutunopolis/ The mutum is a big, turkey-sized ground bird - a cracid with a curly black crest and a bright yellow or red knob at the base of its beak, depending on the species. It lives in the dense forest floors of the cerrado and the Amazonian fringe, foraging for fruit and insects and fleeing into the underbrush at the slightest disturbance. When Joao Goncalves Pacheco came looking for fertile land in 1950 in the far north of Goias, he found a place with enough mutum to name his new settlement after them. Mutunopolis: city of the mutum. It is a touching choice of name, a kind of honor paid to a bird. The bird is not doing well there today. Neither, for that matter, is the city.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/c/mutunopolis-wp/6vsc-mutun-polis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Mutunópolis: A Bird, a Founder, a Town https://qualla.com/mutunopolis/ Pacheco arrived in 1950 looking for land to cultivate in what was then a remote corner of the Goias interior. The nearest town of any size was Porangatu, 38 kilometers to the north. Pacheco and the first arrivals called their settlement Mutum, after the bird. In 1931 - though thi...

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