Qualla: Unaí https://qualla.com/unai 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/n/d/unai-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Unaí https://qualla.com/unai Unaí: Introduction https://qualla.com/unai/ Photo credit CidadãoMineiro, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name Unai is a Tupi word meaning black river - a translation of the Portuguese Rio Preto, the district's earlier name. The renaming happened in 1923, when the town that was then part of Paracatu district was told to drop its duplicate-sounding Portuguese name and adopt something indigenous instead. The town kept both pasts anyway. Outside the city limits, in a cave called Gentio II, archaeologists have found evidence of hunter-gatherers who lived here more than 10,000 years ago, and of gardeners around 4,000 years ago who grew corn, peanuts, pumpkin, and gourd. The oldest pottery found in Brazil outside the Amazon was made here, 3,500 years ago. The Rio Preto that gave Unai its name flows out of a lake called Lagoa Feia near Formosa and joins the Paracatu River, and the whole landscape has been shaping lives since long before any European had heard of either.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/n/d/unai-wp/6vnd-una-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Unaí: Before the Portuguese https://qualla.com/unai/ Photo credit VIunaI, Public domain. Gentio II is only one of several caves around Unai. There is also Gentio I, the Cave of Tamboril - 1,178 meters of mapped passages - the Lapa do Sapezal, the Cave of the Monkfish, the Cave of Quilombo. The last of those got its name in the nineteenth century, when enslaved Africa...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/n/d/unai-wp/6vnd-una-before-the-portuguese.mp3 0:06 2 full Unaí: White Grass to Black River https://qualla.com/unai/ Photo credit Prefeitura Municipal de Unaí, MG, Public domain. The modern town came later. In the nineteenth century a farmer named Domingos Pinto Brochado settled with his family in an area near the Rio Preto that he called Capim Branco - White Grass. In 1873 the village was upgraded to a district within Paracatu and named Rio Preto after t...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/n/d/unai-wp/6vnd-una-white-grass-to-black-river.mp3 0:06 3 full Unaí: The Slaughter of Unai https://qualla.com/unai/ Photo credit lleoliveirabr, Public domain. On January 28, 2004, three federal labor inspectors and the driver who brought them were shot dead in rural Unai while investigating working conditions on farms in the region. Brazilian labor law is supposed to distinguish legitimate employment from conditions "analogous to slave...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/n/d/unai-wp/6vnd-una-the-slaughter-of-unai.mp3 0:06 4 full Unaí: Waterfalls and Record Heat https://qualla.com/unai/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Wikiusuariodel assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. The landscape around Unai is cerrado cut by rivers. The Jiboia Waterfall on the Ribeirao Jiboia about 80 kilometers outside town drops 140 meters in free fall. The Rio Preto waterfall is two kilometers from the city center. The Serra Geral do Rio Preto separates the drainages of ...

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