Águas Amazônicas e cosmografia dos beiradeiros da estação ecologica Terra do Meio

Abstract

In the first half of the 20th century, in search of works in the rubber plantations, the first inhabitants arrived in the region that would become the Estação Ecológica Terra do Meio (EETM), in AltamiraPA. The rubber tappers who stayed there, learned to live with the woods and river, so that they and their descendants came to live in the place. The realization of field research shows that families use canoes with motor as transport, living among the fauna, flora and the enchanted ones, that are part of their existence and a fundamental element for their way of seeing and being in the world.