Guiratinga

It originates from the Tupi "Guira / gyra," which means, bird, bird or heron + "tinga", relating to the color white, white, clear, white heron. The story must be told Guiratinga from the nineteenth century (1890) by Sinalada raids Antônio Cândido de Carvalho, through Eastern Mato Grosso, pioneering and helping build several villages. Then the Salesian Mission in Brazil, established to 06.18.1894, one of its dependencies in place called "Merure" in the center of the Bororo Indians, and this dependence was named "Colony Indigenous Sacred Heart of Jesus" under the direction of Father John Duroure of French origin. Thanks to the persistent work of the Salesian Fathers and Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, who managed to pacify the Bororo was it possible to make the area habitable by white civilization. In 1895, came to this northern region and Northeast, which had burrowing themselves in the forests and savannahs in search of rubber trees and the famous mangabeiras trees that proliferate across the entire Rio Araguaia and Herons and it was very rich in latex. With the shortage of rubber not many migrants returned to the region of origin, preferring to settle here. By this time, came from Goiás and Minas families Moraes, Cajango and Balbino who settled in the region in order to explore the creation of cattle and subsistence farming. João José de Moraes was Cajango with nickname "Cajango" miner, who was employed on the farm of his father Bravista realized that the gravel found there was very similar to their homeland, and this similarity began to investigate the possible existence of diamonds in the region.