Qualla: Pico do Jaragua https://qualla.com/pico-do-jaragua 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/g/y/d/pico-do-jaragua-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pico do Jaragua https://qualla.com/pico-do-jaragua Pico do Jaragua: Introduction https://qualla.com/pico-do-jaragua/ Photo credit User:OS2Warp, Public domain. The Tupi people named it Jaragua -- Lord of the Valley. Standing at 1,135 meters above sea level, the peak earns the title. From its summit in the Serra da Cantareira, you can see the entirety of Sao Paulo spread below: twenty-two million people in an urban expanse that stretches to the horizon in every direction. The city grew around and beneath this mountain, swallowing farms and forests, but it never managed to swallow the peak itself.

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/g/y/d/pico-do-jaragua-wp/6gyd-pico-do-jaragua-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pico do Jaragua: Gold on the Mountain https://qualla.com/pico-do-jaragua/ Photo credit Dario Sanches, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1580, the Portuguese explorer Afonso Sardinha settled on the slopes of Jaragua and found what he was looking for -- gold. But extracting it proved more complicated than discovering it. The indigenous Tupi people who had lived on and around the mountain for generations resisted...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/g/y/d/pico-do-jaragua-wp/6gyd-pico-do-jaragua-gold-on-the-mountain.mp3 0:06 2 full Pico do Jaragua: A Park Takes Root https://qualla.com/pico-do-jaragua/ Photo credit Francisco Ignácio Marcondes Homem de Mello, Public domain. In 1961, the state of Sao Paulo designated the peak and its surrounding Atlantic Forest as the Jaragua State Park. The timing was critical. Sao Paulo was in the midst of explosive industrial growth, consuming land at a pace that would eventually make it one of the largest metropo...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/g/y/d/pico-do-jaragua-wp/6gyd-pico-do-jaragua-a-park-takes-root.mp3 0:06 3 full Pico do Jaragua: Transmitters on the Summit https://qualla.com/pico-do-jaragua/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Television arrived at the summit before hikers did in any organized way. In the years after the park's creation, Brazil's major networks -- TV Globo, Rede Bandeirantes, and TV Cultura -- received permission to erect broadcasting towers on the peak. Globo and Bandeirantes partnere...

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]]> Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/g/y/d/pico-do-jaragua-wp/6gyd-pico-do-jaragua-transmitters-on-the-summit.mp3 0:06 4 full Pico do Jaragua: The Climb and the View https://qualla.com/pico-do-jaragua/ Photo credit Danlessa, CC BY-SA 4.0. A paved road winds to near the summit, and on weekends it fills with road cyclists grinding their way up switchbacks that gain over 400 meters of elevation from the park entrance. Runners and hikers take parallel trails through forest that thickens as the altitude increases. At t...

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