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Cuiabá

Cuiabá, capital of Mato Grosso state, lies 694km/431mi north of Campo Grande, capital of the neighboring state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and 1133km/704mi west of Brasília.

Bus station

Avenida Marechal Rondon

History

In 1718 two bandeirantes from São Paulo, Pascoal Moreira Cabral and Miguel Sutil, found rich seams of gold near the rivers Cuiabá and Coxipó, and in the following year the gold-prospectors' settlement became the Arraial ("Encampment") de Cuiabá, with Moreira Cabral as its head man. It was granted the status of a vila in 1727, but was chartered as a town only in 1818. In 1823 it was declared capital of the province.

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