Qualla: Uruaçu https://qualla.com/uruacu 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/m/j/uruacu-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Uruaçu https://qualla.com/uruacu Uruaçu: Introduction https://qualla.com/uruacu/ Photo credit Marcosvin10, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name is Tupi-Guaraní for large bird. Somewhere before the town took the name Uruaçu in 1943, the muleteers and merchants who followed the route down from the south called this place something else - the Passa Três ranch, then the settlement of Sant'Ana after the chapel Coronel Gaspar helped build in 1913. When the federal government decided in the early 1940s that Brazilian towns should shed their colonial-era Catholic names for indigenous ones, Sant'Ana became Uruaçu. The large bird the name commemorates has not been precisely identified in any record the town keeps. What is clear is that the name arrived by decree and that the place has carried it ever since.

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/m/j/uruacu-wp/6vmj-urua-u-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Uruaçu: A Town on the Long Road https://qualla.com/uruacu/ Photo credit JORFEEL IMAGENS AÉREAS, CC BY-SA 4.0. Uruaçu sits on the BR-153, the Belém-Brasília highway - the interstate corridor that ties the capital to the mouth of the Amazon 2,000 kilometers to the north. The distance from Uruaçu south to Goiânia is 269 kilometers. The distance south to Brasília is 244. Trucks haul soybeans...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/m/j/uruacu-wp/6vmj-urua-u-a-town-on-the-long-road.mp3 0:06 2 full Uruaçu: Between Two Waters https://qualla.com/uruacu/ Photo credit Prefeitura Municipal de Uruaçu, Public domain. The Serra Dourada - the Golden Mountains - rise along Uruaçu's western boundary. The Passa Três river springs from those slopes and supplies the town with drinking water. On the eastern side of the municipality, the land drops into the Serra da Mesa reservoir, one of Brazil's gre...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/m/j/uruacu-wp/6vmj-urua-u-between-two-waters.mp3 0:06 3 full Uruaçu: The Slow Losses of Administrative History https://qualla.com/uruacu/ Photo credit Prefeitura Municipal de Uruaçu, Public domain. Uruaçu was once the administrative center for a much larger area of northern Goiás. In 1948 it lost the district of Porangatu, which became its own municipality and is now the dominant town of the region. In 1953 it lost Amaro Leite, which was later renamed Mara Rosa. Each split ...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/m/j/uruacu-wp/6vmj-urua-u-the-slow-losses-of-administrative-history.mp3 0:06 4 full Uruaçu: The University Branch and the Schools https://qualla.com/uruacu/ Photo credit Prefeitura Municipal de Uruaçu, Public domain. The State University of Goiás maintains a branch in Uruaçu - the Faculdade de Educação, Ciências e Letras - training teachers, humanists, and scientists for the interior. In a town of thirty-something thousand, the campus matters out of proportion to its size. The 46 schools of t...

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]]> Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/v/m/j/uruacu-wp/6vmj-urua-u-the-university-branch-and-the-schools.mp3 0:06 5 full Uruaçu: The Bird That Named a Place https://qualla.com/uruacu/ Photo credit Prefeitura Municipal de Uruaçu, Public domain. There is no statue of the large bird in the town center. No local museum claims to know exactly which species the Tupi speakers had in mind when they left the word behind. In the cerrado that surrounds Uruaçu - the tropical savanna that covers a quarter of Brazil - the candidates...

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