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Roraima is one of the Brazilian states that still count on the greater population of Indians in Brazil, between that emphasize the Yanomamis. By this peculiar situation and due to the wealth of its ground, where great mineral deposits are concentrated: gold, diamonds, cassiterite, bauxite, receive, silica, clay and granite, Roraima has been scene of constant conflicts between natives and garimpeiros (gold prospectors).
Roraima preserves 33 indigenous villages that, until the beginning of the decade of the 80, were threatened of extinction by diseases contracted by the Indians in the frequent contacts the targets. This situation was abashed and in the last years the demographic curve has been positive, taking to the indigenous population to recover the growth.
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Roraima has a rich hydrographic network pertaining to the amazonian river basin, where they emphasize rivers like the Branco, Uraricoeira, Catrimani, Alalaú and Tacutu. Roraima occupies only 2.7% of the Brazilian territory, although its extension of 225,000 km2s corresponds to the extension of Great Britain.
Boa Vista, is the capital of Roraima, the most distant state of the center of being able federal - it is to 4,275 km of Brasilia and near 6,000 km of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. Their commercial relations take control mainly of Manaus, State Capital of Amazon, and with the city of Bonfim, in Guyana (ex- English). Only with these two cities it has communication by highway. With the other Brazilian regions, the capital is only united by air.
Boa Vista is a planned city, but it has a small population due to his geographic, distant location of all the other great urban centers of the country. Thanks to a city-planning project of years 60 it is a modern city, level, designed in the form of fan, with the wide rods of the avenues converging in the place of the Civic Center. |
Recommended visits
In Boa Vista:
- Beaches in the margins of the Branco river and near the bridge of the Macuxis.
House Museum of the Indian, located in the Anaua Park.
In the state of Roraima:
- Island of Maracá, one reserves natural of 92,000 you have. that it has between his fauna herons, wolves and buffalos, its main beach, the Mouth do Inferno, is of dark sand and it only can be reached crossing a natural crack, the Igarapé do Inferno, that divides the island in two different parts.
- In the confluence of the rivers Tacutu and Uraricoeira, to 40 km. of the capital, the ruins of the Forte São Joaquim, constructed in century XVIII subsist. To the historical frame it is possible to be acceded by boat, in a trip of one hour, or by highway.
- Next to the border with Guyana is the Caracaranã Lake, with its margins covered with cajú trees, which does to the very attractive landscape, although difficult.
National park of Monte Roraima, created in 1989, occupies an extension of 116,000 you have. in the North end of the country, in the border with Guyana and Venezuela. It is a savannah region beautiful, trimmed by rivers and cascades, where is one of the highest mountains of Brazil, Monte Roraima, with 2,727 M.s of altitude. It is an immense plate, surrounded by the savannahs that border the tropical forests of the rivers Amazon and Arenoso. The mount served like source as inspiration the English Arthur Conan Doyle to write the Lost World. |
Photographic gallery
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