Qualla: Itaparica https://qualla.com/itaparica en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Itaparica https://qualla.com/itaparica Itaparica: Introduction https://qualla.com/itaparica/ João Ubaldo Ribeiro was born on Itaparica in January 1941 and carried off it two months later, and he spent much of his writing life bringing the island back. Viva o Povo Brasileiro, the 1984 novel he later self-translated as An Invincible Memory, runs its version of Brazilian history through these sugar lands and beaches, told from below - the enslaved, the poor, the stubbornly unimpressed. The island can carry that weight. It is the largest of the ninety-one islands in the Bay of All Saints, lying across the entrance like a breakwater, an hour by ferry from Salvador and a long way from it in most other respects.

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/j/s/w/itaparica-wk/7jsw-itaparica-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Itaparica: The Big Island in a Big Bay https://qualla.com/itaparica/ The Bay of All Saints covers 1,223 square kilometres, the largest bay in Brazil, and Itaparica sits at its mouth roughly ten kilometres from Salvador. The island runs more than 36 kilometres from end to end but barely rises above the water; its highest point is about fifteen metr...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/j/s/w/itaparica-wk/7jsw-itaparica-the-big-island-in-a-big-bay.mp3 0:06 2 full Itaparica: Sparkling Stone https://qualla.com/itaparica/ Nobody agrees on the name. The Tupi scholar Eduardo de Almeida Navarro reads Itaparica as itápirika, flint - stone that throws sparks. Teodoro Sampaio argued instead for 'stone enclosure.' Frederico Edelweiss suspected Portuguese settlers bent whatever they heard toward Caparica,...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/j/s/w/itaparica-wk/7jsw-itaparica-sparkling-stone.mp3 0:06 3 full Itaparica: Sugar, Whales and the First Steam Engine https://qualla.com/itaparica/ The Recôncavo around the bay grew cane, and Itaparica grew it too, on estates worked by enslaved Africans and their descendants. Whaling ran alongside the sugar and continued into the middle of the nineteenth century, the bay's whales taken and rendered within sight of the planta...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/j/s/w/itaparica-wk/7jsw-itaparica-sugar-whales-and-the-first-steam-engine.mp3 0:06 4 full Itaparica: The Island That Held https://qualla.com/itaparica/ The war for Brazilian independence was decided in Bahia later than anywhere else, and Itaparica ended up on the winning side of it. Portuguese forces came for the island on 7 January 1823 with a fleet of 42 vessels and were beaten off in three days by the Itaparica Battalion unde...

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]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/7/j/s/w/itaparica-wk/7jsw-itaparica-the-island-that-held.mp3 0:06 5 full Itaparica: Weekend Boats https://qualla.com/itaparica/ Something over twenty thousand people live in the municipality of Itaparica, more again across the line in Vera Cruz, and the numbers swell every time Salvador decides it needs a weekend away. The town's original draw was medicinal — mineral water rising from a spring in the midd...

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