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Tacaratu
Tacaratu is a municipality in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. The population in 2020, according with IBGE is 26,106 and the area is 1264.5 km2. Demographics The indigenous Pankararú people live in Brejo dos Padres and other villages of Tacaratu. Geography * State - Pernambuco * Region - São Francisco Pernambucano * Boundaries - Floresta (N); Jatobá and Alagoas state (S); Inajá and Alagoas (E); Petrolândia (W) * Area - 1264.5 km2 * Elevation - 14 m * Hydrography - Moxotó river * Vegetation - Caatinga hiperxerófila. * Climate - Semi arid ( Sertão) hot and dry * Annual average temperature - 24.1 c * Distance to Recife - 458 km The municipality contains part of the Serra Negra Biological Reserve, a strictly protected conservation unit created in 1982. Economy The main economic activities in Tacaratu are based in general industry, commerce and agribusiness, especially creation of cattle, goats and sheep; and plantations of mangoes and bean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pankararú Language
Pankararú (''Pancaré, Pankaré, Pancaru, Pankaruru, Pankarará, Pankaravu, Pankaroru, Pankarú, Brancararu'') is an extinct language of eastern Brazil. There are 6,000 ethnic Pankararú, but they all speak Portuguese. In 1961, only two elders could remember anything of the language. Today, they live in Brejo dos Padres and other villages of Tacaratu, Pernambuco State. The language was originally spoken between the Moxotó River and the Pajeú River. In the 19th century the people split into two ethnic groups, the Pankararú and the Pankararé. One quarter of the Parkararé retain their traditional religion. Their language, however, is unattested, and can only be assumed to be a dialect of Pankararu. Classification Pankararú has no proven relatives and remains unclassified. There are similarities with Tukano and Tupian. Meader (1976) found that of 80 known lexical items, one third (26) are clearly cognate with Tupian languages. He speculates that the last speakers of Pank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floresta, Pernambuco
Floresta is a city in the Brazilian States of Brazil, state of Pernambuco. It is situated at latitude 08º36'04" south and at longitude 38º34'07" west, at an altitude of 316 metres. Its population was estimated in 2020 to be 33,184 inhabitants, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. It has an area of 3644.17 km². History Floresta ("forest") traces its origins to the 18th-century farms of Curralinho and Paus Pretos, but it was the Fazenda Grande ("big farm"), on the right bank of the rio Pajeú (Pajeú river), that saw the first inhabitants of Floresta. In the second half of the 18th century, the farm served as a temporary shelter for the cattle that came from Bahia to supply Pernambuco sugar devices with animal power. Around the particular oratory raised in 1777 that would later come to be the chapel of the Bom Jesus dos Aflitos, the town appeared, named as Fazenda Grande. The proprietors of the Fazenda Grande, captain Jose Maciel Pear tree an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |