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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] |
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] |