A HISTÓRIA DE UM LUGAR: o núcleo fundacional de Porangatu (GO)

Abstract

The work proposes to raise the history of the foundational center of Porangatu, understood here as a place of memory. It is understood as place that has acquired meaning over time. It is over time that the place becomes meaningful to the individuals or groups that live there. It is the lived experiences there that build their history, their past, their memory. Value is attributed to place because of its intimacy with it, because even simple and routine events over time have a profound meaning, creating in the individual or group a great affection for the place where they occurred. Memory is rooted in different contexts of our life experience: local customs, celebrations, family and social relationships. In Porangatu, these moments happen at parties, especially religious. These are moments that bring together the entire urban community and the inhabitants of the farms. The festivities became moments of fraternization and encounter, besides a manifestation of faith. Another important festival for the porangatuenses is the Arraiá do Descoberto, which has become a landmark for the city, a moment of entertainment, meeting and fun for decades, although it is not a religious manifestation. The foundational center of Porangatu is a historical place that, for many of its residents, deserves to be preserved. Its history is described in its landscape, in its streets, in the colonial features of the houses and buildings that still remain. The mining period in Goiás was of discoveries and transformations for its immense territory, crossed by the diverse exploratory, military and scientific expeditions. Situated in an important territory of the captaincy, the Sertão de Amaro Leite, appears among the many arraiais, Descoberto da Piedade. Among the many settlements that were extinguished with the disappearance of gold, the Arraial do Descoberto remained and developed yourself until it became an important part of the city of Porangatu. Its historic center still retains the marks of its beginnings, the history of its formation. But today the transformations in which it has passed gone it has caused its decharacterization.