The emergence of Araguaia’s riverside cities from Military Prisons — 19th century

The present article approaches the Araguaia River as the road, a road to the development of commerce, in the second half of the nineteenth century. In this period, Brazilian river navigation is a means of providing living conditions to residents of cities farthest from the main commercial centers and near rivers, founded without more effective commercial exchange with the outside world. At the end of the 19th century, the fears of external invasion through the rivers led Prince D. João VI in 1809 to make possible the defense and protection policy of the Imperial Territory through the implantation of Military Presents in the main Brazilian rivers. In the vast backlands of the Araguaia, these attempts were frustrated in view of the non-permission of the indigenous peoples - Xavantes, Caiapós, Karajás, Javaés, Xambioás and others, who lived in villages, averse to the entrance of other peoples from different cultures. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Imperial government, aware of the impossibility of development or commerce by river, opted to adopt the policy of Implantation of Presents. Military with pre-installation of Creation of Shipping Ports and Commercial Warehouses to guarantee a commercial navigation and formation of cities borders. A two-way exit, to allow a connection with the coast and save the province from the doldrums in which it was