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Cavalcante is a small town and a municipality in northern Goiás state, Brazil. It is located just north of the Parque Nacional da Chapada dos Veadeiros and is connected by tarmacked road with Teresina de Goiás. The distance to the state capital of Goiânia is 530 km.
Founded: 1831
Elevation: 823 m
Population: 10,460 inhabitants
Total Area: 6,979.5 km²
Population Density: 1.50 inhab/km²
Postal Code: 73790-000
Founded in 1740 with the discovery of gold, Cavalcante still has traces of the colonial arquitecture of the gold period. Located 330 km. from BrasÃlia it has waterfalls, streams and trails. Crossing the low mountains one can reach the springs of hot mineral water that gave the name to a now extinct mining town--Ã?gua Quente.
Cavalcante was once considered in the golden age of mining to be a great producer of gold and other minerals. These years are no more and now livestock raising is the strong point of the local economy. The town also gets some tourism, which enters the national park in Alto ParaÃso, 100 km. to the south. Many tourists come to visit the more than 150 catalogued waterfalls, most of which can only be visited on foot. On a dirt road that borders the national park there are connections with Colinas do Sul and the Serra da Mesa artficial lake.
Nearby there is a community, called the Kalunga, who are black descendents of the slaves who escaped into the interior to form communities called quilombos. These runaway slaves lived in isolation, building their own identity and their own culture, with African elements added to European elements, mainly the traditional Catholicism of the rural milieu, and intermingling with the indigenous population.
Today the Kalunga (approximately 4,500 people) occupy a territory that takes in part of the municipalities of Cavalcante, Monte Alegre and Teresina de Goiás. In these territories there are four main population centers: the region of Contenda and Vão do Calunga, Vão de Almas, Vão do Moleque and the former Ribeirão dos Negros, later renamed as Ribeirão dos Bois.
Founded: 1831
Elevation: 823 m
Population: 10,460 inhabitants
Total Area: 6,979.5 km²
Population Density: 1.50 inhab/km²
Postal Code: 73790-000
Founded in 1740 with the discovery of gold, Cavalcante still has traces of the colonial arquitecture of the gold period. Located 330 km. from BrasÃlia it has waterfalls, streams and trails. Crossing the low mountains one can reach the springs of hot mineral water that gave the name to a now extinct mining town--Ã?gua Quente.
Cavalcante was once considered in the golden age of mining to be a great producer of gold and other minerals. These years are no more and now livestock raising is the strong point of the local economy. The town also gets some tourism, which enters the national park in Alto ParaÃso, 100 km. to the south. Many tourists come to visit the more than 150 catalogued waterfalls, most of which can only be visited on foot. On a dirt road that borders the national park there are connections with Colinas do Sul and the Serra da Mesa artficial lake.
Nearby there is a community, called the Kalunga, who are black descendents of the slaves who escaped into the interior to form communities called quilombos. These runaway slaves lived in isolation, building their own identity and their own culture, with African elements added to European elements, mainly the traditional Catholicism of the rural milieu, and intermingling with the indigenous population.
Today the Kalunga (approximately 4,500 people) occupy a territory that takes in part of the municipalities of Cavalcante, Monte Alegre and Teresina de Goiás. In these territories there are four main population centers: the region of Contenda and Vão do Calunga, Vão de Almas, Vão do Moleque and the former Ribeirão dos Negros, later renamed as Ribeirão dos Bois.
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