The
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.