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23-626: Uba or UBA (and diacritic variations) may refer to: Place names [ edit ] Ubá , small tropical city in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil Uba, Nigeria , part of Askira/Uba Local Government Area in Borno State Uba River , in Kazakhstan Abbreviations [ edit ] Royal Union of Belgian Radio Amateurs Union of Burma Airways, former name of Myanmar National Airlines Umweltbundesamt ,

46-614: A semi-professional US men's basketball league Universidad de Buenos Aires , University of Buenos Aires, Argentina User Behavior Analytics Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Uba . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uba&oldid=1131776760 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

69-494: A settlement. His first step was to lead a movement to sign the petition requesting the permit for the construction of the church. On November 3, 1815, the request was granted. To promote this settlement, Captain Januário Carneiro brought all the workers needed to build the church by giving them small pieces of land, housing and food, while they could not have its own supply by cultivating the land. The chapel received

92-455: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Ub%C3%A1 Once a great tobacco producer, Ubá has one of the main furniture industry parks in Brazil. The city is the economic and cultural center of Ubá microregion . It is also home of the famous Ubá mango (Manga Ubá). The Pomba River basin settlement took place, initially, due to

115-712: Is made by a hard pointed stick, and gradually extended by the insertion of larger and larger disks or plugs, sometimes at last as much as 10 cm in diameter. Despite the lightness of the wood, the tembeitera weighs down the lip, which at first sticks out horizontally and at last becomes a mere ring of skin around the wood. Ear plugs are also worn, of such size as to distend the lobe down to the shoulders. Similar ear ornaments are common in South and even Central America, at least as far north as Honduras , as described by Christopher Columbus when he explored this latter country during his fourth voyage (1502). This ornament also named part of

138-582: The Municipality of São João Batista do Presídio , bringing their families, slaves and livestock. In this period, according to an agreement between the Vatican and the Catholic Monarchs , when a settlement in the colonies was founded, a church was to be the first building to be built. While the former owners of land were concerned about their farms, Antonio Januário Carneiro idealized establish

161-530: The Serra dos Aimorés into Minas Gerais . It was in the latter district that at the close of the 18th century they came into collision with the Europeans, who were attracted there by the diamond fields. At the end of the 19th century many Botocudo tribes still existed, numbering between 13,000 and 14,000 individuals. During the earlier frontier wars of 1790–1820, every effort was made to destroy them. Smallpox

184-619: The Coroado natives lived. Those natives used a kind of grass, Gynerium sagittatum (in Portuguese, U-Uva), to make the arrows they used. For linguistic evolution U-Uva became Ubá. Between 1797 and 1798, the first land grants located around the river were donated. In 1805, Captain Antonio Januário Carneiro and his brother-in-law Commander Jose de Faria Alvim Cesario, acquired several land grants previously belonging to

207-514: The Day Fire (Sun) and all evil to Night Fire (Moon). At the graves of the dead, they kept fires burning for some days to scare away evil spirits, and, during storms and eclipses , arrows were shot into the sky to drive away demons. The most conspicuous feature of the Botocudos was the tembeitera , a wooden plug or disk which is worn in the lower lip and the lobe of the ear. This disk, made of

230-725: The Doce River. One band consisted of 8 survivors from the Naktun, Nakpie, Convugn and Miyã-Yirúgn tribes. Another band consisted of around 50 Nakrehe. Today, only a few tribes remain, almost all of them in rural villages and the indigenous territory . The last remnants of the Eastern Botocudo are the Krenak. In 2010, there were 350 Krenak living in the state of Minas Gerais . The Aimoré consisted of dozens of tribes, who spoke either dialects or closely related languages. Some of

253-726: The German Environment Agency Union Byblos Amchit, a former name of Byblos Club , a multi sports club based in Byblos, Lebanon United Baloch Army , a Baloch nationalist militant group designated as a terrorist organisation by the Pakistani government United Bank for Africa , an International bank with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria United Basketball Alliance of India UBA Pro Basketball League Universal Basketball Association ,

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276-490: The Zona da Mata mesoregion, and the temperatures can reach over 40 °C (104 °F) between November and February. Botocudo The Aimoré (Aymore, Aimboré) are one of several South American peoples of eastern Brazil called Botocudo in Portuguese (from botoque , a plug), in allusion to the wooden disks or tembetás worn in their lips and ears. Some called themselves Nac-nanuk or Nac-poruk , meaning "sons of

299-402: The city from northwest to southeast and is responsible for drainage of most sewers in the city. The city sits in a valley and has only 5% of its area flat, the rest being rugged. The altitude ranges from 295 meters to 875 meters. Ubá's climate can be classified as Tropical, with yearly average temperature between 18 and 31 °C (64 and 88 °F). The city is considered the warmest one in

322-714: The decline of mining activities. In the late 18th and early 19th century, several families left Mariana , Ouro Preto , and other mining centers in search of fertile land where they could undertake activities that would result in a more stable and secure incoming. The regions bathed by the Itajaí River, Chopotó River, Pomba River, among others, were of great interest because the land in those areas were of great fertility, and that they were previously inhabited only by natives ( Coroados , Coropós and Purís ) and adventurers. The attempts of colonization of Coroados, Coropós, Purís and Botocudos always ended in bloody battles between

345-662: The east coast of Brazil in 1535, he erected a fort at the head of Espírito Santo Bay to defend himself against the Aimorés and other tribes. The tribe's original territory was in Espírito Santo , and reached inland to the headwaters of the Rio Grande ( Belmonte ) and Doce River on the eastern slopes of the Espinhaço Mountains . The Botocudos were gradually expelled by European colonists westward beyond

368-469: The especially light and carefully dried wood of the barriguda tree ( Chorisia ventricosa ), which the natives called embur , whence Augustin Saint-Hilaire suggested as the probable derivation of their name, Aimboré. It is worn only in the under-lip, now chiefly by women, but formerly by men also. The operation for preparing the lip begins often as early as the eighth year, when an initial boring

391-414: The important tribes are: The Botocudos were a nomadic hunter-gatherers peoples living in the forest. Their implements and domestic utensils were all of wood; their only weapons were reed spears and bows and arrows. Their dwellings were rough shelters of leaf and bast, seldom 4 feet (1.2 m) high. Their only musical instrument was a small bamboo nose flute . They attributed all the blessings of life to

414-569: The indigenous people and the colonizers. During the battles, using arrows and axes against firearms, the natives were gradually slaughtered or made prisoners for slave labor, especially when it comes to young people and women. Due to the international pressure against the genocide of natives, the King of Portugal was convinced to order the Governor Luís Diogo Lobo da Silva to organize an expedition in an attempt to friendly approach

437-433: The name of St. Januarius , and the village the name of Capela de São Januário de Ubá (Chapel of St. Januarius of Ubá). Due to the growth of the village, it was elevated to Paróquia de São Januário de Ubá (Parish of St. Januarius of Ubá) on April 7, 1841. The development of the town took place gradually around the parish. Due to the development of the parish and the activities of the inhabitants, especially coffee plantations,

460-504: The natives. In November 1767, Father Manoel de Jesus Maria was put in charge for the conversion of the natives to Catholicism, laying the groundwork for the entry of the owners of land grants after 1797. Captain Francisco Pires de Farinho , who was familiar with the tracks of forests and the indigenous customs, and was familiar with them, was named special guide with control power. Father Jesus Maria arrived at Uba River , where

483-533: The settlement was officially recognized as a village on June 17, 1853, and on July 3, 1857, was incorporated as a municipality. The first city council was composed by: Ubá is situated in the Zona da Mata mesoregion of Minas Gerais. Most of the city lies in the Paraíba do Sul River basin, with a small part of it lying in the Doce River basin . The city is not surrounded by any large river. Ubá River crosses

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506-583: The soil". The last Aimoré group to retain their language is the Krenak . The other peoples called Botocudo were the Xokleng and Xeta . The Brazilian chief who was presented to King Henry VIII in 1532 wore small bones hung from his cheeks and from the lower lip a semi-precious stone the size of a pea. These were the marks of great bravery. When the Portuguese adventurer Vasco Fernando Coutinho reached

529-716: Was deliberately spread among them; poisoned food was scattered in the forests; by such infamous means, the coast districts about Rio Doce and Belmonte were cleared, and one Portuguese commander boasted that he had either slain with his own hands or ordered to be butchered many hundreds of them. Paul Ehrenreich estimated their population at 5,000 in 1884. As of April 1939, only 68 Botocudo were alive in Eastern Brazil. They were divided into two groups. The first group numbered 10 people (belonging to Naknyanuk, Arana and Poyica tribes) and lived near Itambacuri . The second group were divided into two bands residing at Guido Marliere , on

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