High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The novel deals with the foundation of a community (the Tocaia Grande of the title, meaning "great ambuscade" in Portuguese), in a fertile area surrounded by large cocoa fazendas owned by "coronel" Boaventura. The ambush was held in the same place by Natario de Fonseca, a jagunco at the service of Boaventura, against the latter's enemies; in reward, Natario is given a small cocoa plantation near the hamlet, and subsequently helps the variegate Tocaia Grande community to grow, until it reaches the status of a town.

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