Qualla: Araraquara https://qualla.com/araraquara en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/j/s/araraquara-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Araraquara https://qualla.com/araraquara Araraquara: Introduction https://qualla.com/araraquara/ Photo credit clebervilla, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name is the first thing worth slowing down for. Araraquara comes from an expression in the indigenous languages of the region - Tupi-Guarani, or the Língua Geral once spoken across São Paulo, depending on which etymology you follow - built from arara, macaw, and kûara, hole or lair. Lair of the macaws. Whatever flocks gave the place its name are long gone from the city centre, replaced by 250,000 people, orange groves running to the horizon, and a railway heritage that still supplies the local football team its nickname. But the sun the Tupi word carries an echo of has stayed. Araraquara calls itself the Morada do Sol, the abode of the sun, and anyone who has stood in its main square in February will not argue.

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/j/s/araraquara-wp/6ujs-araraquara-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Araraquara: Founded in the Year of the Coffee Frontier https://qualla.com/araraquara/ Photo credit Sturm, CC BY-SA 4.0. Araraquara was founded in 1817, which makes it old by the standards of interior São Paulo - most of the towns around it are creatures of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century, thrown up as coffee pushed west and the railways followed. The city sits about 270 km north of ...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/j/s/araraquara-wp/6ujs-araraquara-founded-in-the-year-of-the-coffee-frontier.mp3 0:06 2 full Araraquara: Oranges and Cane https://qualla.com/araraquara/ Photo credit Sturm, CC BY-SA 4.0. This is citrus country - the heart of the belt that makes Brazil the dominant force in the global orange juice trade, and Araraquara sits at its centre alongside sugarcane. In the harvest months the roads fill with trucks stacked high with fruit, and the processing plants run aro...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/j/s/araraquara-wp/6ujs-araraquara-oranges-and-cane.mp3 0:06 3 full Araraquara: The Locomotives https://qualla.com/araraquara/ Photo credit Sturm, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 1950, workers at the Estradas de Ferro de Araraquara - the Araraquara Railroad Company, the EFA - organised a football club. They called it Associação Ferroviária de Esportes, and the nickname wrote itself: the Locomotives. The team plays at the Estádio Dr. Adhemar de Barros, ...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/j/s/araraquara-wp/6ujs-araraquara-the-locomotives.mp3 0:06 4 full Araraquara: The Women Who Won Everything https://qualla.com/araraquara/ Photo credit Adelano Lázaro, Public domain. The more remarkable Ferroviária story is the newer one. The club organised a women's professional side in 2001, and the trophies started almost immediately: the São Paulo state championship in 2002, then again in 2004, 2005, and 2013. National honours followed - the Copa do Brasi...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/u/j/s/araraquara-wp/6ujs-araraquara-the-women-who-won-everything.mp3 0:06 5 full Araraquara: Who Araraquara Sent Out https://qualla.com/araraquara/ Photo credit Jonathan Olsson, CC BY 2.5. The roll of people from here reaches into strange corners of Brazilian life. Careca, the striker who won the Italian league with Napoli alongside Maradona in 1990, is araraquarense. So are Rosa Branca and Roseli Gustavo, Olympic-medal-winning basketball players, and Fernanda Vent...

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