Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory
| Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory | |
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| Terra Indígena Sawré Muybu | |
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| Nearest city | Itaituba, Pará |
| Coordinates | 4°53′08″S 56°35′35″W / 4.885674°S 56.592988°WCoordinates: 4°53′08″S 56°35′35″W / 4.885674°S 56.592988°W |
| Area | 178,173 ha (687.93 sq mi) |
| Designation | Indigenous territory |
| Created | 19 April 2016 (delimitation) |
The Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory (Portuguese: Terra Indígena Sawré Muybu), also called the Daje Kapap Eipi, is an indigenous territory of Munduruku people in the state of Pará, Brazil. It includes land that is sacred to the Mundurukus. Issuance of the document that delimits the territory was delayed until April 2016 because of the problems recognition would create with the proposed São Luiz do Tapajós Dam, which would flood part of the area. As of November 2016 the territory had still not been formally created by decree.
The Sawré Muybu Indigenous Territory is in the municipalities of Itaituba and Trairão, in the Middle Tapajós, in the southwest of Pará state. The Sawré Muybu is located on the right (east) bank of the Tapajós river to the south of the town of Itaituba, Pará. It is bounded by the Tapajós to the west and its tributary the Jamanxim River to the east, and includes the land down to the juncture of the two rivers to the north. The territory is composed of very fertile "black Indian land". It has an area of 178,173 hectares (440,280 acres). The territory is threatened by proposed dams and by illegal loggers and diamond miners.
Sawré Muybu is one of the territories of the Munduruku people. Sawré Muybu is called "Daje Kapap Eypi" by the Munduruku. It contains the "Fecho" and "Ilha da Montanha" sacred sites, where Karosakaybu created mankind and the Tapajós River from the tucumã seed. In Munduruku mythology the "Fecho", a stretch where the river narrows, is the place where the river first emerged. Based on archeological studies by Bruna Cigaran Rocha and Vinicius Honorato de Oliveira the middle Tapajós would have been occupied by the Munduruku long before the 20th century. 19th century accounts mention Munduruku villages in the region. They were driven from the area by the advance of the rubber economy after 1900.
In the 1970s, after the decline of the rubber plantations, the Munduruku returned to the middle Tapajós and the sacred sites. The present population of Sawré Muybu are Munduruku who migrated there from the upper Tapajós in the second half of the 20th century, or their descendants. The Munduruku population had gone through a long period of decline due to contact with outside society, but was now recovering. As of 2013 the FUNAI gave estimated population of Sawré Muybu as 132 Munduruku people. In 2014 Siasi/Sesai reported that the population was 168. The indigenous organization Associação Indígena Pahyhy'p (AIP) is active in the territory.
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