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Ganhoão River
The Ganhoão River () is a river of Marajó, which itself is an island in the mouth of the Amazon. It is located in the state Pará in northern Brazil. Its source is in the swamp areas called ''mondongos'' that are normally flooded during the wet season. It has an unobstructed entrance from the Atlantic Ocean but due to its sinuosity, it can only be navigated by small boats. There is a small island near its mouth that is also called Ganhoão. The river is located in the municipality Chaves. The municipality maintains a register office on its bank. Artisanal fishing takes place on the river. Some communities near the river are Alto Ganhoão, Pompé, Redenção, Rio Jambu, Rio Seco, Vila Nazaré and Vila São Pedro. During the feast of Saint Sebastian, people go from house to house collecting gifts for the patron saint. The area used to be inhabited by the Aruã, some of whom had fled from the island Caviana. They had a cemetery on a left tributary stream called Igarapé Bacabal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondongos
The mondongos are low-lying swamp fields in the north of the island Marajó in the Brazilian state Pará. They are flooded during the wet season, which occurs between January and May. The mondongos occur in the transition zone between the tropical rainforest on the west of the island and the savannas in the east. They stretch for around . The mondongos are situated on an old arm of the Amazon River that crossed the island Marajó when it was still forming. A ridge of sandstone separates them from the current main channel of this river. According to Ferreira Penna, the mondongos were created when the Amazon deposited sediments against this ridge. The many streams in the area have tides that are influenced by the Amazon, not by the Pará River. The mondongos are largely covered with swamp rice grass and water hyacinths. Their roots form a dense mass that makes the area difficult to thread. The edges of the mondongos, as well as the banks of the many streams are lined with '' anin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marajó
Marajó () is a large coastal island in the state of Pará, Brazil. It is the main and largest of the islands in the Marajó Archipelago. Marajó Island is separated from the mainland by Marajó Bay, Pará River, smaller rivers (especially Macacos and Tajapuru), Companhia River, Jacaré Grande River, Vieira Grande Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. From approximately 400 BC to 1600 AD, Marajó was the site of an advanced pre-Cabraline society called the Marajoara culture, which may have numbered more than 100,000 people at its peak. Today, the island is known for its large water buffalo population, as well as the ''pororoca'' tidal bore periodically exhibited by high tides overcoming the usual complex hydrodynamic interactions in the surrounding rivers. It is the second-largest island in South America, and the 35th largest island in the world. With a land area of Marajó is comparable in size to Switzerland. Its maximum span is long and in perpendicular width. Geography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's five borders of the oceans, oceanic divisions, with an area of about . It covers approximately 17% of Earth#Surface, Earth's surface and about 24% of its water surface area. During the Age of Discovery, it was known for separating the New World of the Americas (North America and South America) from the Old World of Afro-Eurasia (Africa, Asia, and Europe). Through its separation of Afro-Eurasia from the Americas, the Atlantic Ocean has played a central role in the development of human society, globalization, and the histories of many nations. While the Norse colonization of North America, Norse were the first known humans to cross the Atlantic, it was the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 that proved to be the most consequential. Columbus's expedition ushered in an Age of Discovery, age of exploration and colonization of the Americas by European powers, most notably Portuguese Empire, Portugal, Spanish Empire, Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population, seventh-largest by population, with over 212 million people. The country is a federation composed of 26 Federative units of Brazil, states and a Federal District (Brazil), Federal District, which hosts the capital, Brasília. List of cities in Brazil by population, Its most populous city is São Paulo, followed by Rio de Janeiro. Brazil has the most Portuguese-speaking countries, Portuguese speakers in the world and is the only country in the Americas where Portuguese language, Portuguese is an Portuguese-speaking world, official language. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazil, coastline of . Covering roughly half of South America's land area, it Borders of Brazil, borders all other countries and ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pará
Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas and Roraima. To the northwest are the borders of Guyana and Suriname, to the northeast of Pará is the Atlantic Ocean. The capital and largest city is Belém, which is located at the Marajó bay, near the estuary of the Amazon river. The state, which is home to 4.1% of the Brazilian population, is responsible for just 2.2% of the Brazilian GDP. Pará is the most populous state of the North Region, Brazil, North Region, with a population of over 8.6 million, being the ninth-most populous state in Brazil. It is the second-largest state of Brazil in area, at , second only to Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas upriver. Its most famous icons are the Amazon River and the Amazon rainforest. Pará produces Natural rubber, rubber ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondongos
The mondongos are low-lying swamp fields in the north of the island Marajó in the Brazilian state Pará. They are flooded during the wet season, which occurs between January and May. The mondongos occur in the transition zone between the tropical rainforest on the west of the island and the savannas in the east. They stretch for around . The mondongos are situated on an old arm of the Amazon River that crossed the island Marajó when it was still forming. A ridge of sandstone separates them from the current main channel of this river. According to Ferreira Penna, the mondongos were created when the Amazon deposited sediments against this ridge. The many streams in the area have tides that are influenced by the Amazon, not by the Pará River. The mondongos are largely covered with swamp rice grass and water hyacinths. Their roots form a dense mass that makes the area difficult to thread. The edges of the mondongos, as well as the banks of the many streams are lined with '' anin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaves, Pará
Chaves is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Pará. Its population as of 2020 is estimated to be 23,948 people. The area of the municipality is 13,084.879 km². The city belongs to the mesoregion Marajó and to the microregion of ''Arari''. Chaves is located near the point where the Amazon River enters the Atlantic Ocean. A number of islands are part of the municipality, the largest of which are Caviana and Mexiana. The municipality is contained in the Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area, a sustainable use conservation unit established in 1989 to protect the environment of the delta region. In the 17th and 18th Century, the area was inhabited by the Aruã, mainly around the Ganhoão River. Most of them migrated to Amapá and French Guiana after the Treaty of the Mapuá. In 1793, the Portuguese transferred the ones who had stayed to the lower Tocantins River. On the coast of Chaves, ceramic fragments related to them could still be found, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artisanal Fishing
Artisanal, subsistence, or traditional fishing consists of various small-scale, low-technology, fishing practices undertaken by individual fishermen (as opposed to commercial fishing). Many of these households are of coastal or island ethnic groups. These households make short (rarely overnight) fishing trips close to the shore. Their produce is usually not processed and is mainly for local consumption. Artisan fishing uses traditional fishing techniques such as rod and tackle, fishing arrows and harpoons, cast nets, and small (if any) traditional fishing boats. For that reason, socio-economic status of artisanal fishing community has become an interest of the authorities in recent years. Artisan fishing may be undertaken for commercial, cultural and subsistence reasons. It contrasts with large-scale modern commercial fishing practices in that it is often less wasteful and less stressful on fish populations than modern industrial fishing. Target 14.b of Sustainable Develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Sebastian
Sebastian (; ) was an early Christianity, Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though this did not kill him. He was, according to tradition, rescued and healed by Irene of Rome, which became a popular subject in 17th-century painting. In all versions of the story, shortly after his recovery he went to Diocletian to warn him about his sins, and as a result he was clubbed to death. He is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church as the patron saint of athletics, archery, and plagues. The oldest record of the details of Sebastian's martyrdom is found in the ''Chronograph of 354'', which mentions him as a martyr, venerated on January 20. He is also mentioned in a sermon on Psalm 118 by 4th-century bishop Ambrose, Ambrose of Milan: in his sermon, Ambrose stated that Sebas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aruã People
The Aruã were an Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous people in Brazil. In the 17th and 18th Century, they lived near the mouth of the Amazon River. Their stronghold was on the island Caviana, with a large presence in the north-east of the island Marajó. The Aruã language belongs to the Arawakan languages, Arawakan family. Name Through the centuries, people who described the Aruã have used different spellings for their name. When ethnographist Domingos Soares Ferreira Penna, Ferreira Penna spoke in 1877 with the last Aruã in the town Afuá, who was around 75 years old, he self-designated their people as ''Àroanáuintá''. The first written mention of their name is in documents from 1621 by the Irish settler Bernard O'Brien, who spells it as ''Arrua''. On maps of Guyana by Joannes de Laet from the year 1625, a group of islands north of Marajó is denoted ''Arouen I.'' Walloon Huguenot Jessé de Forest wrote about the ''Arouen'' who "wear their hair long like women". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caviana
Caviana (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Ilha Caviana'', formerly in Aruã language: ''Uyruma'') is a coastal island in the Brazilian state Pará. The island is part of the Amazon Delta. In the 17th and 18th Century it was the stronghold of the Aruã people. From the island a tidal bore called the ''pororoca'' can be observed. Between 1845 and 1850, a strong ''pororoca'' split the island into two parts, called Inner and Outer Caviana. Geography Caviana is part of the municipality Chaves, Pará, Chaves. The Equator runs through Outer Caviana, as well as the 50th meridian west. It is the third-largest island in the Amazon Delta, after Marajó and Ilha Grande de Gurupá. Caviana was formed in the Tertiary period, Tertiary epoch, from river sediments and soil consolidation, consolidated terrain. At the beginning of the Holocene 12,000 years ago, it was already separated from the mainland. The island belongs to the Marajó Archipelago, it is located opposite the north coast of Mara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
