Qualla: Nerópolis https://qualla.com/neropolis 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/f/neropolis-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Nerópolis https://qualla.com/neropolis Nerópolis: Introduction https://qualla.com/neropolis/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. The town was named for a politician who never delivered on his promise. In 1930 the settlement known as Cerrado was renamed Nerópolis in honor of Senator Nero Macedo, who had pledged to bring the railroad to this patch of central Goiás and then, like many early twentieth-century politicians in the Brazilian interior, failed to do so. The name stuck anyway. Nearly a century later Nerópolis sits twenty-five kilometers west of the Goiânia metropolitan area, on highways GO-080 and GO-222, known throughout Brazil for two things: garlic and sweets. The railroad never came.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/f/neropolis-wp/6vhf-ner-polis-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Nerópolis: The Taveira Family And Matinha https://qualla.com/neropolis/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. The official founder is Joaquim Taveira, who arrived with his family in 1894 to clear trees and plant crops. Other families followed, drawn by the fertile red soil that still defines this region of Goiás. The settlement they created went by Matinha dos Taveiras - the Taveira's li...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/f/neropolis-wp/6vhf-ner-polis-the-taveira-family-and-matinha.mp3 0:06 2 full Nerópolis: Garlic Capital https://qualla.com/neropolis/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. From the 1970s through the 1990s Nerópolis was one of Brazil's largest garlic producers. Then Chinese imports arrived. Prices collapsed. Production in and around the town fell off a cliff, and farmers who had built their livelihoods on bulbs in the ground had to find something el...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/f/neropolis-wp/6vhf-ner-polis-garlic-capital.mp3 0:06 3 full Nerópolis: Quero And The Canned Corn Empire https://qualla.com/neropolis/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. The other economic anchor is Quero Indústrias Alimentícias, which employs 1,200 workers and holds national leadership in tomato paste, peas, and canned corn. Almost every Brazilian household has a Quero can in its pantry. The plant is part of why Nerópolis grew so fast - the popu...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/f/neropolis-wp/6vhf-ner-polis-quero-and-the-canned-corn-empire.mp3 0:06 4 full Nerópolis: The Park Nobody Visits https://qualla.com/neropolis/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. Nerópolis holds a share of the 2,132-hectare Altamiro de Moura Pacheco State Park, created in 1992. The park protects a fragment of cerrado - the savanna-like scrubland that once covered most of central Brazil and has been cleared across huge swaths for agriculture. The Altamiro ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/h/f/neropolis-wp/6vhf-ner-polis-the-park-nobody-visits.mp3 0:06 5 full Nerópolis: A Functional Town https://qualla.com/neropolis/ Photo credit Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0. The numbers tell a practical story. Nerópolis has one hospital with 115 beds, fourteen schools with 6,398 students, and an adult literacy rate (87.7 percent in 2000) better than the national average. The Municipal Human Development Index of 0.785 ranks twentieth out of 242 munici...

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