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Guaratiba
Region initially called "Guratiba-Aitinga" or "Aratuquacima" is an indigenous word used by tupinambás who inhabited our coast during the discovery. Its definition is "a place where there are lots of herons / garceiro." It is easy to see that the word came from two other "wolf", which means "bird" and "tiba" which means "place where there is much gathered. "Then:" Guaratiba. This definition is a reality, because until today we still boggles the meeting of White herons in, mangroves in the region.

Today the region is also highlighted, along with its interesting landscape, the variety of bars and restaurants that specialize in fruit-seas.

Bar Guaratiba
Distant about sixty miles from the center of Rio de Janeiro and thirty suburb of Campo Grande, Barra de Guaratiba is one of the most beautiful and charming corners of the region. Who will come first, marvel, those who know it does not tire of gazing at her.

When entering the bar Guaratiba, one sees in the foreground, the bridges connecting the region will Restinga Marambaia; below the hill of Scouting, where the horizon stretches out, and underneath, your little foot bathing beach the hill.

Espionage of the hill, with choppy seas, one sees an immense sheet of foam caused by constant waves break and roll up guiriri (plant species covering the entire length of the sandbank and produces small coconuts), at which time the surfers advantage to be on the crest of waves, or penetrating the "tubes" that are formed there.

With the dead sea, the bay beach bar serves Guaratiba harbor for vessels, especially trawlers are docked during the off hours of the fishermen.

On the beach, the exchange of canoes and boats leaving and arriving for fishing or walking is a spectacle to fill the eye of the beholder. The welcome and hospitality of its people to their full beauty.

The region has beautiful scenery and has already provided the backdrop for movies and novels. A "city scenery" was founded there by TV Globo, and trading houses are already using the name "Gabriel," which gave way to a novel. Famous artists attend the city and hence also Guaratiba, honoring their exceedingly habitantes.É where the site is located Roberto Burle Marx, which was donated to the foundation National Pro-memory of its creator.

Since its inception there are what count. Small and quiet place, everything that happened was reviewed in the corner of corner. Social gatherings were occurring in the religious or the toccatas (sieve or bars), at friends' houses, and once a year on the feasts of the patrons: Our Lady of Sorrows, who is revered in his church on the Bar Guaratiba , Our Lady of Health in his church on the hill of the small bar, the oldest, Peter, protector of fishermen, is celebrated beaches and is also one of the best parties for programming competitions: swimming, boating, maritime procession, cable of war between married and unmarried football and numerous other games, San Sebastian, on Jan. 20, is celebrated in any of the churches not missing out on them all the auction of gifts.

The veneration of patron saints is followed especially since coming segments of this ancient religious precept, by the way began to be installed population of Barra de Guaratiba.

First Inhabitants
In the records belonging to the array of the Saviour of the World Parish Guaratiba, given that the region of Bar Guaratiba began to be inhabited from March 1579 when Manoel Velloso Spine, a resident of Vila dos Santos, who fought alongside Estacio's against Tamoios Sá, asked the Portuguese crown to donate an allotment (a measure of land with the king of Portugal awarded their most loyal colonists), located north of the island called Toolbar Marambaia (today Sandbank Marambaia) along the coast, with two leagues in length and many others into the wilderness, and another island named Guratiba-Aitinga or Aratuquacima (Bar Guaratiba today) with all waters, inputs and outputs, since they are unoccupied populated under the instructions of his highness to populate the Rio de Janeiro.

This citizen has justified their request for donations, claiming he used a vessel of his property, and its costs, its people, more slaves, with much expense, winning the Portuguese crown to the French-Tamoio River and Cabo Frio, and have contributed to the defeat Tamoios next to Estacio de Sa.

The donation was designed under the requirement that the grantee to populate the lands within a maximum period of three years, his heirs, ancestors and descendants, without any tax, the tithe is not paid due to God and the church.

Not the least doubt that from that time began to occupy the land of Guaratiba, by white men, and training of its people.

From the year 1750 - one hundred seventy-one years later, Dom Fradique de Quevedo Rondon at the time grantee of the land, donated part of them will array of the Saviour of the World Parish Guaratiba.

Landing Invaders
Praised in notes made by guaratibano Almir de Carvalho, given that there are strong indications that it was in Barra de Guaratiba that landed the French invaders in 1710, when the privateer Duclerc realized he could not overcome the barrier of fire the fort of Santa Cruz, to penetrate into the bay. There is strong evidence, too, that the sandbank Marambaia was used as a place of concentration of the slave trade of the eighteenth century.

The division of historic Heritage given the evidence, and it was similar to that of the Barra Guaratiba, after examining a reproduction of the landing site,

The research began when studying the coffee culture in the province, noted that the landowner José Joaquim de Souza Breves became involved in the trade of coffee, both for acquiring the island of Marambaia place used as a port of embarkation and disembarkation, and quite adequate to accommodate vessels slave drivers.

Stone Guaratiba
The name "Stone Guaratiba" had its origin in the division of land in the area of ​​Barra de Guaratiba by the heirs of her first grantee, the Portuguese Manoel Velloso Spine.

With the death of Manuel Velloso Spine, his two sons Jerome and Manuel Cubas Velloso Spine Son inherited the Town of Guaratiba. By mutual consent, decided to divide them enter the lands inherited from his father, Jerome staying with the northern part and eastern part with the Manoel, with the river as a landmark Piraquê.

Jerome Velloso Cubas, having no heirs, the law was forced to donate his share to the province Carmelite Fluminense, a religious congregation of friars of the Carmelite Order. The congregation of Carmelite religious possession of the land, did build several improvements including, church, novitiate and a mill.

In the mill there was a large production of sugar, brown sugar and a vast sugarcane fields, thereby providing a rapid development in the region, in which area did the Fazenda da Pedra, an area now called Stone Guaratiba, currently a major producer of fish, and host of the Foundation Xuxa Meneghel There is also the graceful church Nossa Senhora do Desterro, one of the oldest in town, built by the sea. Was listed by the National Trust - Institute of National Historical and Artistic Heritage.

Source: Inventory of Tourism in the Western Zone - AP.5 - RIOTUR.

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