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Indigenous. Very Personal Rights. Border between Brazil and Suriname.
The research addresses questions of a historical nature relating to the indigenous peoples of the Tumucumaque Complex, such as the Tiriyó, Aparai and Wayana. According to a survey carried out in the 1950s, 144 indigenous peoples were cataloged, distributed in more than 100 villages, in the place where the Tumucumaque Complex and its surroundings were created, in the extreme north of Pará. Regarding the western part, which is the locus of the research that If you intend to develop, the occupants of the area are known as Tiriyó, Wayana and Apalaí, whose villages are located on the banks of the Paru de Oeste and Marapi rivers, accounting for a population of around 1700 people, in 34 villages. The Tiriyó, in Suriname, live in greater numbers than in Brazil, on the Tapanahoni, Sipariweni and Paroemeu rivers. The Tiriyó and Waiwai are considered cross-border, as they maintain frequent exchanges between the two countries, with Macapá/Ap as their reference city.