Céu do Mapiá (

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

for "Heaven of the Mapiá

iver Iver is a large civil parish in Buckinghamshire, England. In addition to the central clustered village, the parish includes the residential neighbourhoods of Iver Heath and Richings Park. Geography, transport and economy Part of the 43-square- ...

) is a Brazilian

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

founded in 1983 by Sebastião Mota de Melo. It is located in the headwaters of Igarapé (river) Mapiá, from the

Purus River The Purus River (Portuguese: ''Rio Purus''; Spanish: ''Río Purús'') is a tributary of the Amazon River in South America. Its drainage basin is , and the mean annual discharge is . The river shares its name with the Alto Purús National Park and ...

, in Amazonian South mesoregion, between the Purus and Boca do Acre microregions, in the municipality of

Pauini Pauini is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Amazonas. The population of Pauini was 19,522 in 2020. Its area is . The municipality contains the Purus National Forest, created in 1988. It holds 8% of the Mapiá-Inauini National For ...

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of Amazonas. The village is located within the Inauini-Pauini National Reserve - one of the best-preserved areas of the western Brazilian Amazon. In 1990, with the community's support, the Brazilian government created by the Decree No. 96 190, of June 21, 1988 the

Purus National Forest The Purus National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional do Purus) is a national forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It surrounds the shamanic-Christian community of Céu do Mapiá. Location The Purus National Forest is in the municipality of Pa ...

, with an area of 256,000 ha and the village of Céu do Mapiá as a kind of unofficial capital. The village is the headquarters of ICEFLU (formerly called CEFLURIS), a branch (also founded by Sebastião Mota de Melo) of the

Santo Daime Santo Daime () is a Syncretism, syncretic religion founded in the 1930s in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, Amazonian States of Brazil, state of Acre State, Acre by Raimundo Irineu Serra, known as Mestre Irineu. Santo Daime incorporates elements ...

religion.

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Populated places in Amazonas (Brazilian state) {{AmazonasBR-geo-stub