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Cuiabá is surrounded by three great ecosystems of the world: the Amazonian, the Savannah and the Swampland. With a very hot climate, the place is to the north of the Swampland, beside Plated her/it of Guimarães and still the entrance door of the Amazonian Forest is considered

In indigenous language, 'Cuiabá' it means 'man that makes flour'. there is who says that he/she wants to say 'big city', and others believe that he/she has if originated of 'bottle gourd that goes'. it is Counted that a Portuguese removed water of his/her canoe with a bottle gourd (a type of vase that is done with the fruit of the cuieira), that it fell of his/her hand. He screamed: 'Bottle gourd that goes! ', what would have result in the word Cuiabá.


In the middle of the Central Plateau, the city was formed at that time of the search for the gold. When the ore became exhausted her many years almost uninhabited it passed, and he/she approached the neighboring countries to they begin to motivate the occupation of the interior of Brazil. Cuiabá won a little of the accent and of the Castilian habits.

To know more on the past of Cuiabá, visit the Cultural Foundation. (65 /321-3391), old Palace of the Instruction. In her it is the Museum of Natural History, the one of Anthropology, the one of Sacred Art and the Historical Museum, besides a free studio. The schedule of operation is from 12h30min to 17h30min, of Monday Friday.

Two other museums are great attractions of Cuiabá. In the Museu Rondon (65 / 615-8489) there are pieces of indigenous tribes bush-grossenses, that you/they can be seen from 7h30min to 11h30min or from 13h30min to 17h30min. Already the Museum of Pedras Ramis Bucair, close to the Cultural Foundation, shows all the mysticism of the Brazilian center-west. With crystals, rocks and even fossils of dinosaurs and a meteorite, the museum is one of the favorite of the residents and of the visitors. You can know him/it of Monday Friday, from 7:00 to 11:00 or from 13:00 to 16:00.


Our church Mrs. located Auxiliadora in the Center of Cuiabá. The Churches of Cuiabá are also enclosed of histories. Mister Good Jesus' image, in the Metropolitan Cathedral (beside the Cultural Foundation), he/she has an interesting legend. It is believed that she has been sculpted in Sorocaba, São Paulo, but that has been abandoned in an island in Mato Grosso do Sul. A traveler found her, but you/he/she didn't get to take her/it for São Paulo because you/he/she was too heavy. When giving up the idea and to decide to take her/it to Cuiabá, all of a sudden the image was light, although it went of wood.
 

In the Church of São Gonçalo, in the neighborhood of Porto, there is an image of Christ of almost 3,5 meters that it is in the tower. They say that she came from Italy full of false notes... This Church is also known by having served from refuge to the image of Ours Mrs. of Forte Coimbra's Carmo, during the War of Paraguay. It is at the Church of Rosário, built by the slaves, that São Benedito's traditional Party is been celebrated. And Our Church Mrs. of the Good Ruling it is practically a miniature of Notre Dame Cathedral, in Paris.
Good vibrations...

Cuiabá is in the Geodesic center of South America. For the mystics, it is a sign of energy and good vibrations to be in a central point... THE monument is at the square Moreira Cabral, close to the Legislative Assembly of MT. In him there is a plate with the coordinates of the city. Another monument quite visited is the Monument to the Pioneers, commemorative to the 250 years of the foundation of the city. The statues represent the three characters that formed Cuiabá: the pioneer behind the gold, the Indian and the slave.

Also prove the filet of fried piraputanga. He serves as entrance for the main plate, that can be a ventrecha. What does the one know that is? Ventrecha is nothing else that the rib of fried pacu: care when savoring that fish, because in spite of being quite pleasant, he/she has many spines.
Pacús: one of the fish more sought in the fishing championships.


Cuiabá is one of the hottest cities of Brazil. And not only in temperature... In her, the rhythm of the people brings happiness. To dance the rasqueado, the cururu and the siriri (typical dances of the capital bush-grossense) it continues being part of the routine of the cuiabanos, although much less than in the past. And in a thing all agree: the years of distance and little contact with other people did a special city of Cuiabá, because it is a place where the people of the gold race, as they define him/it the prophets of the century XXI, he/she insists on preserving their differences.
 

 
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