Compiled by Salatiel Alves of Araújo, all reserved rights © 1996
The Pantaneiro Man, received from the indigenous Guaranis, Paiaguás, Guatós the physical agility and the respect to the nature, which meets practically unaffected with more than 200 years of occupation and economic exploration. The colonization of the area repairs a century XVIII. Through the rivers Tietê, Paraná and Paraguay, the first coming members of the Bandeiras arrived from São Paulo to Plated her Cuiabana where found gold. After the War of Paraguay and with the decline of the gold, the povoamento gives him in the sense North-south, appearing at the Swampland great farms of extensive pecuária that, associated to the environmental factors, they consolidated a structure fundiária of great properties (56% of the area, with more than 10.000 there are). In the beginning of this century, the access to the great urban centers of the Country was made himself by Assumption, Buenos Aires and Montevidéo, resulting of there the absorption of countless cultural and folkloric manifestations - music, vestiment, language and feeding. The arrival of the Railroad (northwest of Brazil - 1914) it incorporated new habits and habits. The distances and the difficult access to the farms made the man pantaneiro to get used to the isolation and the solitude, even so he/she manifests the cooperation feeling when he/she works its cattle (traditional handling) or in the typical festivities among the farms. Living the reality of an inhospitable area, enchentes, attack of wild animals, transport problems and, without politics differentiated for the area, the man pantaneiro pecuarista, herdsman or fisherman) it maintains love, respect and attachment to its earth.
Computer science, Consulting and Training Paiaguás
Salatiel
Alves of Araújo - Geologist and Specialist in Remote Sensory
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