Cuiabá

Federal State

Palácio Alencastro Cuiabá - MT

Cuiabá is the capital of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. It has a population of around 554 361 people live in the metropolitan area 1,000,000 people.

Geography

Cuiabá prides itself for it to lie in the geographic center of South America. At the same time it is one of the gateways to the Pantanal. Wholesale Cuiabá also includes the community Várzea Grande, which is practically grown together with the city. The Rio Cuiabá divides the city into two parts. The territory is flat to hilly, with a height of 150 to 250 meters above sea level.

Climate

Cuiabá has a hot and humid climate.

In the hottest months, the temperature rises to 43 degrees Celsius, the minimum is 12 to 14 degrees Celsius.

Traffic

Highways link the city to Campo Grande in the south and the BR- 070 with Goiânia in the east and in the west of Cáceres. Another federal road leads north to bind smaller communities in the north of the state to the road network, and to provide a connection to the state of Pará.

Cuiabá has a destination in Várzea Grande airport, the Aeroporto Internacional Marechal Rondon, operated almost exclusively on domestic flights but also a hub for the local traffic in the Midwest of Brazil.

Economic significance of the ship traffic on the rivers of the region, in particular the Río Paraná and Río Paraguay.

Cuiabá possessed from 30 April 1891 drawn by mules tram. You da Silva Monteiro, then ran a year by the Companhia Progresso Cuiabano the entrepreneur Manoel of the Empreza Cuiabana Ferro Carril e Matadouro. The path length was 6.5 km in 1911, forty mules attracted eight passenger and four freight vehicles. The bad service in 1896 attracted even a scandal when the police chief items placed before the custodian to prevent vehicles driving. He and the governor of the state were forced to resign after this incident. Plans to electrify the system were not implemented in 1935 the tram was shut down. Since then, there has never been in Cuiabá back rail.

Education

Cuiabá is home to several universities, whose name is UFMT ( Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso ).

Economy

Cuiabá mainly lives from being a trade center for the huge cattle ranching areas of the state of Mato Grosso. There is also an industrial center, especially in the enterprises of light industry work.

History

In the 18th century the region was explored to Cuiabá by Bandeirantes that came up in search of gold and slaves to Rio Tietê. The city itself was founded in 1719, with the name of the Indian word " Ikuiapá " goes back and as much as "place of the harpoon " means. The Rosário Church in the center of the city at that time was the reference to such a rich vein of gold. Finding gold was a large number of migrants in the city. 1746, the city was largely destroyed by an earthquake.

After the exploitation of gold deposits was no longer profitable, agriculture was the only sector of Cuiabá and the surrounding area. The development of the city thus stagnated for several decades.

In 1818, Cuiabá became a town in 1835 and declared the capital of the state of Mato Grosso. In the 1850s she was of strategic importance during the war Paraguay, but then stagnated again until the 1930 's, when " in the West March" the development of the hinterland of Brazil was promoted as part of the. Especially since the 1960s, the city has established itself as the "Gateway to the Amazon ", a process that continues today.

Current projects that are still increase the importance Cuiabás are the Paraguay - channel rail link to Porto dos Santos and the construction of the main road towards the north; they should go in their completion to Santarém.

Archdiocese of Cuiabá

  • Archdiocese of Cuiabá

Attractions

The city itself has several churches dating from the founding period, as established in 1722 Rosário Church in baroque style with the golden altar. The Igreja Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho was built in the style of Notre Dame in Paris. Next to this church there is also a museum of sacred art.

The Pedras Ramis - Bucair Museum presents pieces from about 4000, including the remains of a 120- million year old Tyrannosaurus and stone axes from the Neolithic period.

The Rondon Museum deals with the Brazilian national hero and explorer Candido Rondon.

In the area of Cuiabá Chapada dos Guimarães is worth seeing, a small sandstone mountains, have cut into the rivers and streams valleys.

Águas Quentes has to offer hot thermal springs.

Cuiabá is also a good starting point for trips to the Pantanal.

Festivals

During the carnival is in Cuiabá the custom of " Boi -à -Serra " maintained. Here, the players pull on special bulky costumes, which are mostly oxen (and other animals ); these costumes see the Bumba - meu -boi in the Northeast not dissimilar. The clad actors then engage during the carnival parade playfully to the viewers. The whole is accompanied by the music of Cururu.

Twinning

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Francisco de Aquino Correia (1885-1956), Brazilian Bishops
  • José de Mesquita (1892-1961), Brazilian poet
  • João Carlos Muniz (1893-1960), diplomat
  • Hugo Alcântara ( born 1979 ), Brazilian footballer
  • Éder Bonfim ( born 1981 ), Brazilian footballer
  • Victor da Silva (* 1995), Brazilian footballer
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