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The Indigenous peoples in Brazil (Portuguese: povos indígenas no Brasil) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups, who have inhabited the country prior to the European. The word índios ("Indians"), was by then established to designate the people of the Americas and is still used today in the Portuguese language to designate these ...
Indigenous peoples in Brazil or Native Brazilians (Portuguese: Brasileiros nativos) are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 district tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil.
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.
As of 2016, there were 702 Indigenous territories in Brazil, covering 1,172,995 km 2 – 14% of the country's land area. [13] As of 2020, 120 areas were in the formal process of being identified, covering a total of 1,084,049 hectares; 43 had been formally identified (2,179,316 ha); 74 had been formally declared (7,305,639 ha) and 487 had already been formally approved (106,858,319 ha).
There are 724 Indigenous territories (Portuguese: Terra Indígena [ˈtɛʁɐ ĩˈdʒiʒẽnɐ], TI) in Brazil, [1] comprising about 13% of the country's land area. [2] According to Article 231 of the Brazilian Constitution , the Indigenous peoples of Brazil possess an inalienable right to lands they "traditionally occupy" [ n 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ...
Brazil, [b] officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, [c] is the largest and easternmost country in South America. It is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 states and a Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília.
Brazil had an official resident population of 203 million in 2022, according to IBGE. [4] Brazil is the seventh most populous country in the world and the second most populous in the Americas and Western Hemisphere. Brazilians are mainly concentrated in the eastern part of the country, which comprises the Southeast, South, and Northeast.
Portuguese immigrants arriving in Rio de Janeiro European immigrants arriving in São Paulo. The Brazilian population was formed by the influx of Portuguese settlers and African slaves, mostly Bantu and West African populations [4] (such as the Yoruba, Ewe, and Fanti-Ashanti), into a territory inhabited by various indigenous South American tribal populations, mainly Tupi, Guarani and Ge.