Cariri Formation

	Cariri Formation Kiriri people are indigenous people of Eastern Brazil. Their name is also spelled Cariri or Kariri and is a Tupi word meaning "silent" or "tactiturn." History The French Capuchin missionary Martin of Nantes (1638–1714) was the apostle of the Kariri people on the São Francisco River between 1672 and 1683. The various Kariri peoples were settled in different towns (''aldeia'') and villages (''vila''), listed as follows.DANTAS, Beatriz G., SAMPAIO, José Augusto L. and CARVALHO, Maria do Rosário G. "Os Povos Indígenas no Nordeste Brasileiro: Um Esboço Histórico". In: M. Carneiro da Cunha (org.), História dos Índios no Brasil. São Paulo: FAPESP/SMC/ Companhia das Letras. pp. 431-456. 1992. Territory Today a large portion of their traditional homelands is still called the Cariris region. Within this region are two cities, Crato and Juazeiro do Norte. The Chapada Diamantina has a dramatic landscape with high plains, table-top mesas, and steep cliffs or towers known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Portuguese Language Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Crato (Ceará) Crato may refer to: Places Crato, Portugal Crato, Ceará, Brazil People * Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1621–1642), German nobleman Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1663– 1713), German nobleman Johannes Crato von Krafftheim (1519–1585), German humanist and physician, * Pseudo-Crato, the supposed author of a history of the apostles Simon and Judas Nuno Crato (born 1952), Portuguese mathematician and economist Other uses Crato Formation The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It is an important Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) for palaeontologists. The strata were laid down mostly during ... , a geological formation of Early Cretaceous age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pilar (Paraíba) Pilar, Portuguese and Spanish for pillar, may refer to: People * Pilar (given name), a common abbreviation of ''María del Pilar'', including a list of people so named * Pilar (surname), a list of people surnamed Pilar or del Pilar Places Argentina * Barrio El Pilar, a village and municipality in Río Negro Province * Pilar, Buenos Aires Province * Pilar, Córdoba Province * Pilar Partido, a partido located in Greater Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires Province Brazil * Pilar, Alagoas * Pilar, Paraíba * Pilar de Goiás, Goiás * Pilar do Sul, São Paulo Philippines * Pilar, Abra, a 5th class municipality * Pilar, Bataan, a 3rd class municipality * Pilar, Bohol, a 4th class municipality * Pilar, Capiz, a 4th class municipality * Pilar, Cebu, a 5th class municipality * Pilar, Sorsogon, a 1st class municipality * Pilar, Surigao del Norte, a 5th class municipality Elsewhere * El Pilar, an ancient Mayan city center on the Belize-Guatemala border * Pilar da Bretanha, a civil parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha De Inhanhuns Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha Do Irapuá Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha Do Cavalo Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha De Aracapá Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha Do Pambu Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	São Brás (Alagoas) São Brás or São Braz (Portuguese for Saint Blaise) may refer to: In Brazil * São Brás, Alagoas, in Alagoas São Brás do Suaçuí, in Minas Gerais São Braz, Belém, a neighbourhood of Belém, Brazil * São Braz do Piauí, in Piauí In Portugal * São Brás de Alportel, a municipality in the Faro District * São Brás (Amadora), a parish in the municipality of Amadora In the Azores * São Brás (Praia da Vitória), a civil parish in the municipality of Praia da Vitória * São Brás (Ribeira Grande), a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande In India * São Brás, a parish in Gandaulim (Ilhas) Gandaulim is a village located on the western bank of the Cumbarjua Canal, within Tiswadi, Ilhas in the state of Goa, India. Residents of the village and of Dubrovnik, Croatia believe that it was a colonial outpost of the Republic of Ragusa alth ... , Goa, India {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Língua Geral Língua Geral (, ''General Language'') is the name of two distinct lingua francas, spoken in Brazil: the '' Língua Geral Paulista'' (''Tupi Austral'', or Southern Tupi), which was spoken in the region of Paulistania but is now dead, and the ''Língua Geral Amazônica'' ( Tupinambá) of the Amazon whose modern descendant is Nheengatu. Both were simplified versions of the Tupi language, the native language of the Tupi people. Portuguese colonizers arrived in Brazil in the 16th century, and faced with an indigenous population that spoke many languages, they sought a means to establish effective communication among the many groups. The two languages were used in the Jesuit Reductions The Society of Jesus ( la, Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuits (; la, Iesuitæ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ..., the Jesuit missions in Brazil and by early colonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]

	Cariri Formation Kiriri people are indigenous people of Eastern Brazil. Their name is also spelled Cariri or Kariri and is a Tupi word meaning "silent" or "tactiturn." History The French Capuchin missionary Martin of Nantes (1638–1714) was the apostle of the Kariri people on the São Francisco River between 1672 and 1683. The various Kariri peoples were settled in different towns (''aldeia'') and villages (''vila''), listed as follows.DANTAS, Beatriz G., SAMPAIO, José Augusto L. and CARVALHO, Maria do Rosário G. "Os Povos Indígenas no Nordeste Brasileiro: Um Esboço Histórico". In: M. Carneiro da Cunha (org.), História dos Índios no Brasil. São Paulo: FAPESP/SMC/ Companhia das Letras. pp. 431-456. 1992. Territory Today a large portion of their traditional homelands is still called the Cariris region. Within this region are two cities, Crato and Juazeiro do Norte. The Chapada Diamantina has a dramatic landscape with high plains, table-top mesas, and steep cliffs or towers known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Portuguese Language Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Crato (Ceará) Crato may refer to: Places Crato, Portugal Crato, Ceará, Brazil People * Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1621–1642), German nobleman Louis Crato, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1663– 1713), German nobleman Johannes Crato von Krafftheim (1519–1585), German humanist and physician, * Pseudo-Crato, the supposed author of a history of the apostles Simon and Judas Nuno Crato (born 1952), Portuguese mathematician and economist Other uses Crato Formation The Crato Formation is a geologic formation of Early Cretaceous (Aptian) age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin. It is an important Lagerstätte (undisturbed fossil accumulation) for palaeontologists. The strata were laid down mostly during ... , a geological formation of Early Cretaceous age in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin {{disambiguation, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pilar (Paraíba) Pilar, Portuguese and Spanish for pillar, may refer to: People * Pilar (given name), a common abbreviation of ''María del Pilar'', including a list of people so named * Pilar (surname), a list of people surnamed Pilar or del Pilar Places Argentina * Barrio El Pilar, a village and municipality in Río Negro Province * Pilar, Buenos Aires Province * Pilar, Córdoba Province * Pilar Partido, a partido located in Greater Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires Province Brazil * Pilar, Alagoas * Pilar, Paraíba * Pilar de Goiás, Goiás * Pilar do Sul, São Paulo Philippines * Pilar, Abra, a 5th class municipality * Pilar, Bataan, a 3rd class municipality * Pilar, Bohol, a 4th class municipality * Pilar, Capiz, a 4th class municipality * Pilar, Cebu, a 5th class municipality * Pilar, Sorsogon, a 1st class municipality * Pilar, Surigao del Norte, a 5th class municipality Elsewhere * El Pilar, an ancient Mayan city center on the Belize-Guatemala border * Pilar da Bretanha, a civil parish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha De Inhanhuns Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha Do Irapuá Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha Do Cavalo Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha De Aracapá Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ilha Do Pambu Ilha (Portuguese for "island") may refer to the following places in Portugal or Mozambique: Ilha (Santana), a parish in the municipality of Santana, Madeira Ilha (Pombal), a former parish in the municipality of Pombal Island of Mozambique The Island of Mozambique ( pt, Ilha de Moçambique) lies off northern Mozambique, between the Mozambique Channel and Mossuril Bay, and is part of Nampula Province. Prior to 1898, it was the capital of colonial Portuguese East Africa. With its r ... , an island and populated place of the coast of mainland Mozambique {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR:* [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	São Brás (Alagoas) São Brás or São Braz (Portuguese for Saint Blaise) may refer to: In Brazil * São Brás, Alagoas, in Alagoas São Brás do Suaçuí, in Minas Gerais São Braz, Belém, a neighbourhood of Belém, Brazil * São Braz do Piauí, in Piauí In Portugal * São Brás de Alportel, a municipality in the Faro District * São Brás (Amadora), a parish in the municipality of Amadora In the Azores * São Brás (Praia da Vitória), a civil parish in the municipality of Praia da Vitória * São Brás (Ribeira Grande), a civil parish in the municipality of Ribeira Grande In India * São Brás, a parish in Gandaulim (Ilhas) Gandaulim is a village located on the western bank of the Cumbarjua Canal, within Tiswadi, Ilhas in the state of Goa, India. Residents of the village and of Dubrovnik, Croatia believe that it was a colonial outpost of the Republic of Ragusa alth ... , Goa, India {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Língua Geral Língua Geral (, ''General Language'') is the name of two distinct lingua francas, spoken in Brazil: the '' Língua Geral Paulista'' (''Tupi Austral'', or Southern Tupi), which was spoken in the region of Paulistania but is now dead, and the ''Língua Geral Amazônica'' ( Tupinambá) of the Amazon whose modern descendant is Nheengatu. Both were simplified versions of the Tupi language, the native language of the Tupi people. Portuguese colonizers arrived in Brazil in the 16th century, and faced with an indigenous population that spoke many languages, they sought a means to establish effective communication among the many groups. The two languages were used in the Jesuit Reductions The Society of Jesus ( la, Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuits (; la, Iesuitæ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ..., the Jesuit missions in Brazil and by early colonist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]