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The Bishop Well

Poço do Bispo, or The Bishop Well, in Rio Vermelho, City of goiasThe Bishop Well (O Poço do Bispo) actually is a nice place for swimming in Red River (Rio Vermelho), jumping from the stones. Right after the small historical river gets down from the mountains where gold was first found in Goias in 1725. The whole area was the land of an Indian tribe named Goyah, who disappeared in the firs 50 years of colonization (but left their name for state and city of Goias, in Brazil. The swimming area at the river got that name after the Bishop House close to it, where there's a Catholic seminary for new priests. In the past they used the place and called it, as the best, the Bishop Well. It is at the Carioca district, in the exit to Aruana and Araguaia River. Presently the Red River in that specific place is quite ruined by the excess of sand inside it, mainly from the deforestation and annual fires up on the hills, where the river is born. Its name came from the fact that the first miners would use water-removing techniques to explore the gold in such a great number of mining places that the water downstream would become red, by effect of the redlands around the mountains, thrown into the waters.

 

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