Curitibanos

Curitibanos stands among the cool uplands of southern Brazil, country inhabited by the ancestors of the Kaingang and Xokleng. In 1679 the bandeirante Guilherme Dias Cortes passed through the region and recorded the name Curitibanos on a map. A road opened for drovers in the eighteenth century brought herds across the plateau, and farms and houses gathered around the stopping place. By 1824 it had become the parish of Nossa Senhora dos Curitibanos.