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Extract from the Cuiab Travel Guides: The southern gateway into the Amazon,
CUIAB
has always been firmly on the edge of Brazil's wilderness. Following the discovery of a gold field here in 1719 (one version of the town's name means the "river of stars"), the town mushroomed as an administrative and service centre in the middle of Indian territory, thousands of very slow, overland miles from any other Portuguese settlement. To the south lay the Pantanal and the dreaded Paiagu people who frequently ambushed convoys of boats transporting Cuiab gold by river to So Paulo. The fierce Bororo tribe, who dominated the Mato Grosso east of Cuiab, also regularly attacked man...
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