Tropeiro Museum
The drovers.
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Castro is a historic town of about 72,000 people in the Campos Gerais region of Paraná, on the Iapó River, which grew in the eighteenth century as a resting stop for the «tropeiros», drovers who drove mules and cattle from Viamão in the south to the great fair at Sorocaba. The caravans halted here on the historic Sorocaba road, and the town grew around it; today it has Brazil's first Tropeiro Museum, which tells the life of the drovers, their gear and the trade that tied the south of the country to its centre. Around the town lie the open grasslands of the Campos Gerais and the nearby Guartelá canyon, and it is known for Brazil's most productive dairy basin: the Castrolanda cooperative, founded by Dutch immigrants, raises pure-bred Holstein cattle.
The drovers.
Open grasslands.
Castrolanda.
Castro, Iapó River, Campos Gerais, Paraná state
Drovers who drove mules and cattle from the south to Sorocaba.