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Faliraki has rediscovered itself as a cosmopolitan, vibrant centre of tourism catering to many nationalities and all age groups. Faliraki boasts the largest water park in Greece, [1] a state-of-the-art bowling park, a history park, and a fun-park for families and younger children. The centre of the town, particularly in July and August, is ...
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.
The Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais (CPRM) was authorized to extract minerals in a 10,044 hectares (24,820 acres) area of what is now the territory in 1975. [1] The CPRM is owned by the Ministry of Mines and Energy. [5] The 1988 constitution only allows mining on indigenous territories when authorized by a specific law.
In 1969, Brazil's permanent representative to the UN argued that Brazil could not be charged with genocide against the indigenous peoples of the Amazon as "since the criminal parties involved never eliminated the Indians as an ethnic or cultural group […] there was lacking the special malice or motivation necessary to characterize the ...
The 163 Chinese workers found by Brazil's labor ministry in what it described as "slavery-like conditions" at a factory construction site owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD have been ...
The pre-Cabraline history of Brazil is the stage in Brazil's history before the arrival of Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, [1] at a time when the region that is now Brazilian territory was occupied by thousands of indigenous peoples. Traditional prehistory is generally divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic ...
Vale do Javari is home to 3,000 indigenous peoples of Brazil with varying degrees of contact, including the Matis, the Matses, the Kulina, and others. [1] The uncontacted indigenous peoples are estimated to be more than 2,000 individuals belonging to at least 14 tribes including the Isolados do Rio Quixito, Isolados do Itaquai (), Isolados do Jandiatuba, Isolados do Alto Jutai, Isolados do Sao ...
The mythology of Brazil, especially that of the local indigenous groups, has largely been kept alive through oral tradition and theater-like storytelling. [1] Because of the historic reliance upon oral tradition, a lack of written records, and great differences in the geographies of different native groups, myths and stories with the same roots ...