Cavalcante
Sign in to saveCavalcante is a town located in the northern state of Goiás, Brazil. It used to be a big gold producer during the colonial times, but today Cavalcante is more known by its natural beauties, rivers and waterfalls. It is home to a large number of quilombolas, communities of descendants of African-Brazilians who managed to escape from slavery.
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- Cavalcante
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- Municipality
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- Cachoeira de Santa Bárbara
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- Location in Goiás state
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- Brazil
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- Location in Brazil
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- Brazil
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- Central-West
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- State
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- Goiás
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- Mesoregion
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- Microregion
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- Chapada dos Veadeiros
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Cavalcante is a town located in the northern state of Goiás, Brazil. It used to be a big gold producer during the colonial times, but today Cavalcante is more known by its natural beauties, rivers and waterfalls. It is home to a large number of quilombolas, communities of descendants of African-Brazilians who managed to escape from slavery.
==Geography== It is located just north of the Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park and is connected by tarmacked road with Teresina de Goiás. It is part of the Chapada dos Veadeiros micro-region. The distance to the state capital of Goiânia is 510 km and most residents have greater contact with Brasília than with the state capital.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cavalcante” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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