Qualla: São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area 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/y/v/s/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area: Introduction https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area/ Photo credit Brazil_location_map.svg: NordNordWest derivative work: Виктор В (talk), CC BY-SA 3.0. Eight thousand years ago, someone carved figures into the stone on Pedra Escrita and the Ilha dos Martírios - an island in the middle of the fast-running Araguaia River in what is now southeastern Pará. The inscriptions are still there. The river is still fast. And in the dense rainforest lining its west bank, harpy eagles - the largest and arguably most formidable birds of prey in Brazil - still hunt monkeys from the canopy. The São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area wraps around the Serra dos Martírios/Andorinhas State Park in a landscape where ancient humans left their marks, where 20th-century guerrillas fought the military dictatorship, and where the forest itself has mostly been cleared for cattle. What remains is a 29,655-hectare buffer trying to hold the line.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/v/s/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area-wp/6yvs-s-o-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-a-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area: Where the Araguaia Runs Fast https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area/ Photo credit Dannver Lemos, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Araguaia River is one of Brazil's great waterways, flowing for hundreds of kilometers down the border between Tocantins and Pará before joining the Tocantins itself in the north. Through São Geraldo do Araguaia, the river runs fast and rock-filled, the kind of stretch that de...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/v/s/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area-wp/6yvs-s-o-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-a-where-the-araguaia-runs-fast.mp3 0:06 2 full São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area: Rock Art from Deep Time https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area/ Photo credit Dannver Lemos, CC BY-SA 4.0. The inscriptions are the human story of this place written before writing existed. Eight thousand years puts them roughly contemporaneous with the earliest known agriculture in the Old World, long before the pyramids, long before any European ship crossed the Atlantic. Who made t...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/v/s/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area-wp/6yvs-s-o-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-a-rock-art-from-deep-time.mp3 0:06 3 full São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area: A Forest Mostly Cleared https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area/ Photo credit Dannver Lemos, CC BY-SA 4.0. The original vegetation here was dense rainforest. The vegetation today is mostly cattle pasture. The APA was created on July 25, 1996, by law 5.983, specifically as a buffer around the Serra dos Martírios/Andorinhas State Park - and specifically because almost all of the surroun...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/v/s/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area-wp/6yvs-s-o-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-a-a-forest-mostly-cleared.mp3 0:06 4 full São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area: The Araguaia Guerrilla https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area/ Photo credit Dannver Lemos, CC BY-SA 4.0. This region carries a heavier recent history. During the military regime that governed Brazil from 1964 into the mid-1980s, the rainforests around what is now São Geraldo do Araguaia became the base of the Araguaia Guerrilla, an armed left-wing movement active from the late 1960s...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/y/v/s/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area-wp/6yvs-s-o-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-a-the-araguaia-guerrilla.mp3 0:06 5 full São Geraldo do Araguaia Environmental Protection Area: Harpy Eagles and What Remains https://qualla.com/sao-geraldo-do-araguaia-environmental-protection-area/ Photo credit Dannver Lemos, CC BY-SA 4.0. The APA is home to Harpia harpyja, the harpy eagle, the largest bird of prey in Brazil. It is also the declared main bio-indicator of the protected area, meaning its presence or absence signals the health of the whole ecosystem. Harpies need intact forest with large trees and abu...

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