The hidden power in the Brazilian Amazon
Lost Civilizations (@lostcivilizations)
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· 27 Apr 2024
When you travel to the Brazilian Amazon you realize the immensity of this territory. The so-called legal Amazon has an approximate area of 5.2 million square kilometers, which corresponds to 74% of the entire Amazon and 61% of Brazil, and is inhabited by about 22 million people, which is a very low population density. However, a large part of its inhabitants is concentrated in the cities of Manaus, Belém and Porto Velho. Only 200,000 indigenous people live in the entire Brazilian Amazon, but the lands assigned to them, where no one can enter without the authorization of FUNAI (Fundación Nacional do Índio) correspond to 21% of this enorm...