Guiratinga

It originates from the Tupi "Guira / gyra," which means, bird, bird or heron + "tinga", relating to the color white, white, clear, white heron.

The story must be told Guiratinga from the nineteenth century (1890) by Sinalada raids Antônio Cândido de Carvalho, through Eastern Mato Grosso, pioneering and helping build several villages.

Then the Salesian Mission in Brazil, established to 06.18.1894, one of its dependencies in place called "Merure" in the center of the Bororo Indians, and this dependence was named "Colony Indigenous Sacred Heart of Jesus" under the direction of Father John Duroure of French origin.

Thanks to the persistent work of the Salesian Fathers and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, who managed to pacify the Bororo was it possible to make the area habitable by white civilization.

In 1895, came to this northern region and Northeast, which had burrowing themselves in the forests and savannahs in search of rubber trees and the famous mangabeiras trees that proliferate across the entire Rio Araguaia and Herons and it was very rich in latex. With the shortage of rubber not many migrants returned to the region of origin, preferring to settle here.

By this time, came from Goiás and Minas families Moraes, Cajango and Balbino who settled in the region in order to explore the creation of cattle and subsistence farming.

João José de Moraes was Cajango with nickname "Cajango" miner, who was employed on the farm of his father Bravista realized that the gravel found there was very similar to their homeland, and this similarity began to investigate the possible existence of diamonds in the region. In one of these investigations, an Indian Bororo, said at the confluence of Cassununga Herons and there were many glistening pebbles, which the Indians denominated in toricuiêgo.

Knowing the finding, Cajango used to tell these stories and other people who passed by.

In the year 1900, passes through the farm Boa Vista, a Bahian name Sezilo Feliciano dos Santos, who hears all aware of stories told by Cajango.

Feliciano, stimulated by it decides to fix the port indicated by the Bororo Indians, i.e., at the confluence of Cassununga and herons, that already by 1908, but Feliciano did not install yourself, brought a group of people among whom his wife, Jane Frances of Jesus.

One day, Jane Frances washing dishes in the river Cassununga feels a gravel different from others smote the dish, this small sample was taken to the farm Boa Vista and undertook to send Cajango analyze it and found to be diamond.

The group Sezilo leaned hard on mining, which extract more carats and carat diamond. Thus was founded the first mining in the region.

The news of the discovery of diamonds in Lageado quickly spread throughout the country, and waves of adventurers, notably the Northeast, Goiás and Minas Gerais flocked to this region of Mato Grosso causing the emergence of towns as Santa Rita do Araguaia, Lageado High Egrets, Herons Bar, Poxoréo, Itiquira and others.

Gone until 1929, although Guiratinga getting a sharp stream of people from Minas Gerais, Goiás and the diamond washings of Bahia, was known simply as "village of Lageado", and belonged to the municipality of Santa Rita do Araguaia.

With the operation of a gravel surfaced, and excavations gave abundant quantities of diamonds in the mines of the Herons Lageado improved and grew significantly and 25.09.1929, under State Law No. 1023 passed the village category, being named Vila Paved .

As intensified the mining of rivers Herons and Flag, plus emptied the mining population established in Santa Rita do Araguaia, then the seat of its municipality.

Lageado developed rapidly, people from everywhere here was established, which emphasized rapid growth to the point of the August 2, 1933 have been and taken to city, by ordinance State No. 291 with this decree, Lageado spent the condition of the district seat of a municipality that was not his, or rather, a municipality that had the name of Santa Rita do Araguaia ... But this fact did not last long.

With the elevation of the condition Lageado district county seat, Santa Rita do Araguaia, entered into deep decay, the political, economic and social.

With the political emancipation, the then mayor of Santa Rita do Araguaia, Dr. Julian Jose da Silva, was taking office in Lageado most did not, and was appointed 1st Lieutenant. Francisco Fernandes dos Santos, who shortly afterwards ended tragically killed in Cuiabá, assuming the office of mayor Manoel Cruz.

Highways serving the city of Guiratinga - MT 270 - fully paved and signposted, joining up with the BR 163 and BR 364, connecting the cities, Guiratinga the bar Herons, Rondonopolis and Cuiaba.

MT 110 - Connects to BR 070, connecting the cities of Alto Herons, Treasury, Primavera do Leste, Goiânia. MT 107 - Connects to MT 130 and BR 070, connecting the municipalities of Poxoréo, Primavera do Leste.

• Rondonópolis 110 km
• Cuiabá 317 km
• Tesouro 462 km
• Barra do Garças 240 km
• Brasília 800 km
• Primavera do Leste 186 km

The Diocese of Guiratinga (Dioecesis Guiratingensis) is an ecclesiastical circumscription of the Catholic Church in Brazil, belonging to the Ecclesiastical Province of Cuiabá and the West II Regional Bishops' Council of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil, being a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Cuiabá. The episcopal see is the Cathedral St. John the Baptist in the city of Guiratinga in the state of Mato Grosso.

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