Qualla: São Miguel do Araguaia https://qualla.com/sao-miguel-do-araguaia 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/s/k/sao-miguel-do-araguaia-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: São Miguel do Araguaia https://qualla.com/sao-miguel-do-araguaia São Miguel do Araguaia: Introduction https://qualla.com/sao-miguel-do-araguaia/ Photo credit VilsonF5, CC BY-SA 4.0. The town was founded by a faith healer. In 1952, José Pereira do Nascimento, a Spiritualist who drew the ill and the hopeful to this distant corner of Goiás, arrived with two partners and bought enormous tracts of land. He raised cattle and prayed over the sick, and a settlement took shape on the banks of a small river that he named São Miguel after the archangel. Nearly seventy-five years later, the faith-healer founder is a historical footnote, but his town has grown into one of Goiás's largest municipalities and the gateway to a stretch of the Araguaia River that transforms every year into Brazil's most improbable beach.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/k/sao-miguel-do-araguaia-wp/6vsk-s-o-miguel-do-araguaia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full São Miguel do Araguaia: The Healer and the Herd https://qualla.com/sao-miguel-do-araguaia/ Photo credit VilsonF5, CC BY-SA 4.0. By 1958 the government had surveyed the land, cut it into parcels, and offered it free to anyone willing to come. Families from southern Minas Gerais loaded their belongings and made the long trip north, and in the 1960s the trickle became a flood. Thousands took the free-land of...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/k/sao-miguel-do-araguaia-wp/6vsk-s-o-miguel-do-araguaia-the-healer-and-the-herd.mp3 0:06 2 full São Miguel do Araguaia: When the River Reveals the Sand https://qualla.com/sao-miguel-do-araguaia/ Photo credit Amanda Leite, CC BY-SA 3.0. Forty-five kilometers west of town, where the Araguaia River forms the border with Tocantins, sits the tiny district of Luiz Alves. For most of the year it is a fishing village of around 800 residents. Then July comes. The Araguaia drops. As the water level falls, kilometers of w...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/k/sao-miguel-do-araguaia-wp/6vsk-s-o-miguel-do-araguaia-when-the-river-reveals-the-sand.mp3 0:06 3 full São Miguel do Araguaia: Carnaraguaia and the Festival That Died with Its Founder https://qualla.com/sao-miguel-do-araguaia/ Photo credit Vilson Ferreira (R7), CC BY-SA 4.0. The beach season has its own off-season carnival. Carnaraguaia happens on the river sand every July during the holidays, pulling in bands from across the country - Companhia do Pagode, Banda Nechevile, Léo Santana - and turning the Luiz Alves beach into a dance floor. Back in tow...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/s/k/sao-miguel-do-araguaia-wp/6vsk-s-o-miguel-do-araguaia-carnaraguaia-and-the-festival-that-died-with-its-f.mp3 0:06 4 full São Miguel do Araguaia: Mayors and the Federal Police https://qualla.com/sao-miguel-do-araguaia/ Photo credit Giullianoporta, Public domain. Small Brazilian municipalities sometimes produce outsized political drama, and São Miguel do Araguaia has produced its share. In 2016 a local doctor named Nélio Cunha won the mayoralty with 42 percent of the vote. In 2019 he resigned, and his deputy Azaíde Borges took over - then...

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