Aldeia Bona
Karapaeukuru
Aldeia Apalaí
Aldeia Bona is located in Pará
Aldeia Bona
Aldeia Bona
Location in Brazil
Aldeia Bona is located in Brazil
Aldeia Bona
Aldeia Bona
Aldeia Bona (Brazil)
Coordinates: 1°12′54″N 54°39′21″W / 1.21500°N 54.65583°W / 1.21500; -54.65583
CountryBrazil
StatePará
MunicipalityAlmeirim
Population
 (2018)
  Total288[1]

Aldeia Bona or Aldeia Apalaí, sometimes also known by its native name Karapaeukuru,[2] is an Apalaí-Wayana village on the Eastern Paru River in the state of Pará in Brazil.[3][4]

History

Aldeia Bona was founded in 1970 by the Fundação Nacional do Índio (FUNAI) in an effort to halt the socio-cultural disintegration that was taking place among the Apalaí and Wayana in Brazil.[3] An airstrip was constructed by the Brazilian Air Force to ease access to the remote area.[4]

Shortly after its creation, Aldeia Bona housed about 60% of the Apalaí and Wayana population of the region. The concentration of the population mostly served the interests of the Brazilian government employees stationed in the village, however, and did not adhere to the criteria the indigenous Apalaí and Wayana use for founding a village. Consequently, traditional settlement patterns, i.e. small villages of a few households spread out along a large area, reemerged after a while. Still, Aldeia Bona remains the largest Apalaí-Wayana settlement on the Paru River and continues to serve as the access point to the area.[4]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1972 55    
1978 94+9.34%
1981 161+19.65%
1982 111−31.06%
2016 267[5]+2.62%
Source: Ricardo 1983, p. 140

In June 2016, Aldeia Bona had 267 inhabitants, of whom 157 were Apalaí, 105 were Wayana and 5 were Tiriyó.[5]

Notes

  1. Iori van Velthem Linke (2018). "Gestão territorial e ambiental nas terras indígenas do Rio Paru de Leste: um desafio coletivo no norte da Amazônia brasileira". University of Brasília (in Portuguese). p. 71. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. Van Velthem & Van Velthem Linke 2010, p. 15.
  3. 1 2 Boven 2006, pp. 118–119.
  4. 1 2 3 "Wayana: social organisation". Povos Indígenas no Brazil. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  5. 1 2 "Caracterização do DSEI Amapá e Norte do Pará, conforme Edital de Chamada Pública n. 2/2017 (item 3.1)" (PDF). portalarquivos.saude.gov.br. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

References

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