Uniao dos Palmares
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About Uniao dos Palmares
Uniao dos Palmares is a municipality located within the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population turned into 59,369 and its area is 428 km². Surrounding agricultural land is basically devoted to sugar cane and cattle. At one time, while the metropolis became an energetic rail forestall with everyday passenger carrier, it become named without a doubt Uniao due to its rail junction joining Alagoas and Pernambuco. The call turned into modified in 1944 to mirror its historic significance. The town is increasingly seeing domestic and foreign traveller drawn by way of historical and herbal features which can be now covered in Parque Nacional Serra da Barriga and Parque Memorial Quilombo dos Palmares.
The metropolis of Uniao dos Palmares has a historic significance to African-Brazilians. On a close-by hill changed into a mocambo or, in more recent phrases, a quilombo. These were centers of African slaves fleeing and resisting slavery. Known as the Quilombo dos Palmares this changed into the largest and most prepared of the many quilombos in Brazil. The maximum famous discern of the Quilombo dos Palmares became Zumbi dos Palmares. The quilombo reached a population somewhere around 30,000 composed of former slaves and a few Amerindian allies. Between 1672 and 1696 it withstood repeated attacks by means of colonial forces until it fell to regular forces with artillery.
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