Qualla: Patrocínio https://qualla.com/patrocinio 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/u/w/s/patrocinio-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Patrocínio https://qualla.com/patrocinio Patrocínio: Introduction https://qualla.com/patrocinio/ Photo credit A Felipe Freitas, CC BY-SA 3.0. The story is part prayer, part property record. A rich landowner saw his only daughter gravely ill and vowed to the Virgin Mary that if she recovered, he would build a chapel in thanks. The daughter recovered. The chapel went up. Its name was Nossa Senhora do Patrocinio, which means "Our Lady of Protection." The word patrocinio itself translates as protection or patronage, and the town that grew around the chapel kept the promise-word as its civic identity. Today Patrocinio is a municipality of 91,449 people at 965 meters elevation in the Triangulo Mineiro of Minas Gerais, and it has spent two centuries quietly becoming one of Brazil's most productive dairy and hog counties, with a suspected meteor crater just east of town.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/w/s/patrocinio-wp/6uws-patroc-nio-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Patrocínio: Bandeirantes and a Saintly Vow https://qualla.com/patrocinio/ Photo credit Mjmauler, CC BY-SA 4.0. The origins of the region go back to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the bandeirantes, explorers from the Portuguese colonial period, passed through on their way to the captaincy of Goias in search of gold. The region offered modest returns for prospectors. In 1771...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/w/s/patrocinio-wp/6uws-patroc-nio-bandeirantes-and-a-saintly-vow.mp3 0:06 2 full Patrocínio: Where the Water Comes From https://qualla.com/patrocinio/ Photo credit Camillovs, Public domain. The municipal watershed belongs to the Paranaiba River basin. The Quebranzol and Santo Antonio rivers feed the Araguari. The Dourados, Perdizes, and Espirito Santo rivers add their water, along with streams called the Salitre, Pavoes, Macaubas, and Corrego do Ouro. Waterfalls hid...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/w/s/patrocinio-wp/6uws-patroc-nio-where-the-water-comes-from.mp3 0:06 3 full Patrocínio: Hogs, Milk, and Coffee https://qualla.com/patrocinio/ Photo credit will7, CC BY-SA 3.0. Patrocinio ranks as the third-largest hog producer in Brazil. Fourteen large producers run operations with thousands of sows apiece. Together with dozens of smaller ones, they keep around 5,399 sows, each averaging 22 piglets per year, for a total over 125,000 animals. Production...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/w/s/patrocinio-wp/6uws-patroc-nio-hogs-milk-and-coffee.mp3 0:06 4 full Patrocínio: A Crater and a Congada https://qualla.com/patrocinio/ Photo credit Renato Augusto Martins, CC BY-SA 4.0. East of town, Chapadao lake sits in what is believed to be an impact crater, visible from Google Earth's satellite views. A small portion of the feature is lake. The rest is farmland, the old crater floor now pivoting with center-pivot irrigation. The crater's status as an impact...

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