Qualla: Pires do Rio https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio 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/v/t/pires-do-rio-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Pires do Rio https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio Pires do Rio: Introduction https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio/ Photo credit Daniel T Marques, CC BY-SA 4.0. The town is named for the man who built the railroad. In 1922, when a metal bridge finally spanned the Rio Corumba and steel rails pushed into the central Goias interior, the station needed a name. Engineers chose Jose Pires do Rio, the Minister of Transportation and Public Works whose signature had authorized the line. The name stuck to the depot, then to the settlement that sprouted around it, then to the lives of everyone who followed the whistle into town.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/v/t/pires-do-rio-wp/6uvt-pires-do-rio-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Pires do Rio: The Plan That Nobody Followed https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio/ Photo credit Daniel T Marques, CC BY-SA 4.0. Coronel Lino Teixeira Sampaio and Balduino Ernesto de Almeida saw the railroad coming and made a gamble that paid off badly at first. They donated land from their ranches, drew up a proper town plan, and reserved an orderly grid where the new community was supposed to rise. Then ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/v/t/pires-do-rio-wp/6uvt-pires-do-rio-the-plan-that-nobody-followed.mp3 0:06 2 full Pires do Rio: Poultry Country https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio/ Photo credit Daniel T Marques, CC BY-SA 4.0. Drive through Pires do Rio today and the numbers speak for themselves: 1.7 million head of poultry against a human population of roughly 28,000. The ratio tells you everything about what this corner of Goias does for a living. Cattle graze on the 50,000 hectares of natural pastur...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/v/t/pires-do-rio-wp/6uvt-pires-do-rio-poultry-country.mp3 0:06 3 full Pires do Rio: A Seventy-Meter Drop https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio/ Photo credit Daniel T Marques, CC BY-SA 4.0. For visitors, the draw is not the town but the water around it. Cachoeira do Marata falls seventy meters in a single plunge, and the pool at the bottom has become a destination for swimmers, campers, and skydivers who use the cliffs above as a launch point. A few kilometers away,...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/v/t/pires-do-rio-wp/6uvt-pires-do-rio-a-seventy-meter-drop.mp3 0:06 4 full Pires do Rio: The Museum of the Line https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio/ Photo credit Daniel T Marques, CC BY-SA 4.0. The railroad built Pires do Rio, and the railroad is what Pires do Rio remembers. A small museum in town holds the artifacts of the age when steam and steel defined everything: signal lamps, timetables, conductor's punches, photographs of uniformed men beside locomotives that no ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/v/t/pires-do-rio-wp/6uvt-pires-do-rio-the-museum-of-the-line.mp3 0:06 5 full Pires do Rio: The Cerrado Horizon https://qualla.com/pires-do-rio/ Photo credit Daniel T Marques, CC BY-SA 4.0. From the air above 17 degrees south, Pires do Rio reads as a small grid of streets in a vast patchwork of pasture and cropland. The Brazilian cerrado stretches in every direction, its trees stunted and twisted from the hard dry season, its horizons broken only by the occasional b...

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