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The Kayapo (Portuguese: Caiapó) people are an indigenous people in Brazil, living over a vast area across the states of Pará and Mato Grosso, south of the Amazon River and along the Xingu River and its tributaries. This location has given rise to the tribe's nickname of "the Xingu". [1]
The Kayapó Indigenous Territory has an area of 32,840 square kilometres (12,680 sq mi). It is inhabited by the Kayapó people. As of 1990 Funai reported that the population was 1,946. In 2014 Siasi/Sesai reported that the population was 4,548. [1]
The Metyktire form part of the Kayapo people and speak an archaic version of the Kayapo language. [2] When discovered, they had not had any known contact with Western civilization. This was attributed to their location on the 12,100,000-acre (49,000 km 2) reservation, in an area difficult to access due to dense jungle and lack of nearby rivers.
Terra Indigena Menkragnoti is an indigenous territory created in 1994 in the state of Pará (as part of municipalities of Altamira and São Félix do Xingu) and in Mato Grosso (municipalities of Matupá and Peixoto de Azevedo), Brazil. [1] It is home to the Menkragnoti tribe, which belongs to the Kayapo nation. It has a total population of 626 ...
This is a list of the Brazil's Indigenous or Native peoples. This is a sortable listing of peoples, associated languages, Indigenous locations, and population estimates with dates. A particular group listing may include more than one area because the group is distributed in more than one area.
The Munduruku and Kayapo people, along with tribes from the Xingu reservation said in a letter to the Transport Ministry that the work group was not doing its job of discussing the 1,000-km (620 ...
Brazil's Belo Monte Dam ultimately opened in 2016. Paulinho Paiakan, who died Wednesday, was chief of the Kayapó people. Brazil Indigenous Leader, Fighter For Rainforest Dies Of COVID-19
The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization. Scholars believe that while they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, from about 2,900 years ago the Tupi started to migrate southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast of Southeast Brazil.