Qualla: Caxias do Sul https://qualla.com/caxias-do-sul en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:58 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Caxias do Sul https://qualla.com/caxias-do-sul Caxias do Sul: Introduction https://qualla.com/caxias-do-sul/ In 1875, families from the Veneto stepped off overcrowded ships after a month at sea, having buried fellow passengers along the way. They had left an Italy convulsed by the wars of unification, where impoverished farmers could no longer feed themselves. Brazil's imperial government had offered them land in a place they could not picture: a wild, uncharted highland in the far south. They climbed the Serra Gaúcha to reach it, and on that unfamiliar plateau they built Caxias do Sul - today the largest city of the Serra and the second most populous in all of Rio Grande do Sul.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/g/d/caxias-do-sul-wp/6fgd-caxias-do-sul-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Caxias do Sul: Campo dos Bugres https://qualla.com/caxias-do-sul/ The land was not empty. For millennia the Kaingang people had lived on this plateau, and the first name the settlers' world gave the place reflected the careless prejudice of the era: Campo dos Bugres, a term for the indigenous inhabitants. Tropeiros - the cattle drovers of south...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/f/g/d/caxias-do-sul-wp/6fgd-caxias-do-sul-a-wall-of-silence.mp3 0:06 4 full Caxias do Sul: The Pearl of the Colonies https://qualla.com/caxias-do-sul/ What rose from those hardships is one of Brazil's most dynamic economies. Caxias grew from 54,000 people in 1950 to well over 460,000 today, its industry shifting from village blacksmiths to giants of metalworking and transportation - Marcopolo, which builds more than half the bu...

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