Arapoti, Paraná, Brazil Genealogy

Guide to Municipality of Arapoti ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, church records, parish registers, and civil registration.

History
The history of Arapoti has its origins in Jaguariaíva Farm, which belonged to the legendary settler of this region, Colonel Luciano Carneiro Lobo. The fields here, until then, were occupied by beef cattle and served as a landing for troops coming from the south of the country. At the time, it was the Cerrado District, now a rural village, that had the highest concentration of people on these lands that today form the municipality. The site really began to develop in the 1910's with the installation of a sawmill and paper mill by the Southern Brazil Lumber & Colonization Companye. In the Cerrado there was everything, shops, schools, police stations and health centers.

Soon after, in 1912, the Ramal Ferroviário do Paranapanema arrived in these lands, which crossed the Capão Bonito farm and provided the opportunity for residents to settle around the "Cachoeirinha" railway station, today the headquarters of the Capão Bonito Memorial - Casa da Cultura. This made people living in the Cerrado District prefer to stay closer to the station because of the commercialization of products and the locality became less and less inhabited.

Experiencing the economic cycles of coffee and wood produced on a large scale in the North Pioneiro region of Paraná, immigrants began to arrive in 1916 - initially Spanish and Polish.

It was on the 18th of December 1955 that Arapoti emancipated himself. In 1960 it was time for Dutch immigration to arrive in the region. They came on a larger scale and founded the Cooperativa Agroindustrial (Capal) here, currently a member of the ABC group (from the Batavo complex). The creation of the cooperative transformed the municipality into a high-technology center in agriculture and livestock, with emphasis on the production of soybeans, corn, wheat, swine, chickens and high-line Dutch dairy cattle.

In the 1980s, the construction of the paper and cellulose manufacturer Inpacel Indústria LTDA created one of the most modern paper industries in the country in the city. International Papel has already passed through the same facilities and currently, in a new industrial complex, the multinational giant Stora Enso, whose flagship is the production of magazine paper.

Online Resources

 * Arapoti Memória
 * Brazil, Paraná, Catholic Church Records, 1731-2013 no Registros Históricos do FamilySearch

Other Institutions
Prefeitura Municipal de Arapoti Rua Placídio Leite, 148 Centro Cívico Arapoti PR 84.990-000 Telephone: (43) 3512-3000 WebSite: www.arapoti.pr.gov.br