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Anhanguera | |
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 Statue of Anhanguera at Parque Trianon in São Paulo | |
| Born | Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva 1672 |
| Died | 19 September 1740 Vila Boa de Goiás, Captaincy of Goiás, Colonial Brazil, Kingdom of Portugal |
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| Children | 10 |
| Parent(s) | Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva (father) Izabel Cardoso (mother) |
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, also known as Anhanguera (a transliteration from the Tupi word for "old devil" (1672 – 19 September 1740)) was a Portuguese bandeirante from the state of São Paulo. At 12 years old, he went to accompany his father, also named Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva, in expeditions into the rural areas of the Captaincy of São Vicente, corresponding to the territory of the moden-day state of Goiás. With the discovery of gold in Minas Gerais, he founded the city of Sabará and, later on, the cities of São João do Paraíso and Pitangui, where he was named an assistant of the district. In 1720, he returned to his hometown of Santana de Parnaíba and created a presentation to Dom João V of Portugal asking for permission to return to Goiás, where his father had found gold. In return, Dom João asked for the right to demand pay for people traversing rios on the way to the mines in Goiás. The offer was accepted, and another expedition began to be organized.
In 1722, he left São Paulo with the intention to traverse the same sertão he had seen with his father forty years prior with his father. Over the course of 3 years, and with great difficulty, he traveled through the sertão in Goiás in search of the legendary Serra dos Martírios.[1] After more than 50 years, he found gold in the Rio Vermelho. He was named chief captain of the mines by Dom João in 1726 and, later on, coronel of ordinances and chief captain of Vila Boa;[2] he founded Arraial de Santana, which became Vila Boa de Goiás in 1736 (though some sources point to the year 1739,[3][4] arguing that 1736 just corresponds to the year of transmission of the royal order). The town is currently the city of Goiás.
Cora Coralina, a renowned short story writer and poet from Goiás, describes the arrival of Anhanguera as the following:
Even in front of the old house, on the side of the river there, more than two hundred years ago, nearing to three hundred, the flag of the "Polistas" arrived. The place called Porto da Lapa was where the people of Anhanguera disembarked on 26 July 1728. They disembarked and soon ordered everyone to build Lapa church in honor and glory of Nossa Senhora dos Caminheiros that, after passing through and errors made, without recounting the thickness of the sertão, would bring them, in the end, the right direction of the Goiá tribe.[5]
- ^ Cora Coralina: as bandeiras e os cristãos-novos. Freidenson, Marilia Levi. Maraavi Archive: Digital Magazine of Jewish Studies of UFMG.
- ^ Sertão E Cultura Sertaneja Na Construção Da Identidade Do Brasil Central. ALVES, Hélio Barbosa Feliciano.
- ^ "História de Goiás". InfoEscola (in Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ A Religiosidade, Os Risos E Suas Formas Em Vila Boa De Goiás. Machado, Dr. Humberto César; Morais, Dra. Cristina de Cássia P.; LIMA, Esp. Mara Cristina Machado. Faculdade Alfredo Nasser.
- ^ Meu livro de cordel, edição 18. CORALINA, Cora. Global Editora, 2013.