Qualla: Querência https://qualla.com/querencia 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/f/c/querencia-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Querência https://qualla.com/querencia Querência: Introduction https://qualla.com/querencia/ Photo credit Geovani Hahn, Public domain. The word querência is difficult to translate. It is a gaucho word, carried by the cattle herders of the Pampas, and it means something like "the place where you long to be" - the home you return to, the patch of land your horse instinctively heads for at the end of a long ride. The people who founded this municipality in the 1980s were Lutheran Germans and their descendants, gauchos from Rio Grande do Sul, and they had just moved 2,500 kilometers north into the Amazon basin. They were not in their querência. They named the place for what they had left behind.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/f/c/querencia-wp/6vfc-quer-ncia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Querência: Pastor Schwantes's Cooperative https://qualla.com/querencia/ Photo credit Adelano Lázaro, Public domain. The origins of Querência begin with a pastor. Norberto Schwantes was a Lutheran minister from Rio Grande do Sul who, in the 1970s, helped found the Cooperativa Mista de Canarana - a settler cooperative designed to move southern Brazilian families north into Mato Grosso. The proje...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/f/c/querencia-wp/6vfc-quer-ncia-pastor-schwantess-cooperative.mp3 0:06 2 full Querência: A Landscape of Three Biomes https://qualla.com/querencia/ Photo credit Filosofante, Public domain. Querência's territory covers 17,850 square kilometers - larger than some small countries - and sprawls across three distinct ecosystems. To the south, the cerrado of Mato Grosso, with its grasslands and twisted trees. To the north, true Amazon rainforest. In between, one of the l...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/f/c/querencia-wp/6vfc-quer-ncia-a-landscape-of-three-biomes.mp3 0:06 3 full Querência: Soybeans on a Colossal Scale https://qualla.com/querencia/ Photo credit Cecilia Heinen, CC BY 2.0. The transformation of Querência into one of Brazil's most productive agricultural zones happened with astonishing speed. By 2006 the municipality was responsible for the 14th largest soybean production in Brazil - 461,100 tons on roughly 200,000 hectares. By 2008 soybean output h...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/f/c/querencia-wp/6vfc-quer-ncia-soybeans-on-a-colossal-scale.mp3 0:06 4 full Querência: Parties, Rodeos, and the German Inheritance https://qualla.com/querencia/ Photo credit Cecilia Heinen, CC BY 2.0. The cultural calendar of Querência tells you where its people came from. The Baile do Chopp, at the end of May, is a beer festival of distinctly German flavor, featuring bands from Rio Grande do Sul. The Festa do Colono e Motorista - the Farmer and Driver Festival - at the end of...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/f/c/querencia-wp/6vfc-quer-ncia-parties-rodeos-and-the-german-inheritance.mp3 0:06 5 full Querência: A Frontier That Matured https://qualla.com/querencia/ Photo credit Geovani Hahn, Public domain. Querência now has paved highways connecting it to Ribeirão Cascalheira and the broader Mato Grosso road network - the BR-242 finally linked to the BR-158 in November 2010, realizing a dream Querencianos had held since the town was founded. The Betis Stream that runs near town is ...

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