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Country
  
Brazil

Area
  
85,445 km²

State
  
Amazonas

Vale do Javari Brazil One of Earth's Last Uncontacted Tribes the native people holding a spear, topless, and living in a coconut leaf house.

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Vale do Javari (English language: Javari Valley) is one of the largest indigenous territories in Brazil, encompassing 85,444.82 km 2 (32,990 mi 2), or an area larger than Austria. It is named after the Javari River, the most important river of the region, which since 1851 forms the border with Peru. It includes much of the Atalaia do Norte municipality as well as adjacent territories in the western section of Amazonas state. Besides the Javari it is transected by the Pardo, Quixito, Itaquai and Ituí rivers.

Contents

Vale do Javari native man is serious, has black hair, earlobes, right hand holding a spear wearing a blue short with lines.

Inhabitants

Vale do Javari natives is serious, wearing a white tie, earlobes, and black colored skin, with body art holding a spear with body art.

Vale do Javari is home to 3,000 indigenous peoples of Brazil with varying sorts of contact, including the Matis, the Matses, the Kulina, the Mayoruna, and others. The uncontacted Indians are estimated to be more than 2,000 individuals belonging to at least 14 tribes like the Isolados do Rio Quixito, Isolados do Itaquai (Korubo), Isolados do Jandiatuba, Isolados do Alto Jutai, Isolados do Sao Jose, Isolados do Rio Branco, Isolados do Medio Javari and Isolados do Jaquirana-Amburus. These are believed to be living deep inside its reservation areas. The uncontacted tribes live in some 19 known villages identified by air. According to Fabricio Amorim from Fundação Nacional do Índio, the region contains "the greatest concentration of isolated groups in the Amazon and the world".

Plane incident

A map of Vale do Javari shows the places in Brazil and also the place and territories where the natives live.

In October 2009, a plane emergency-landed in the middle of the reservation. People from the Matis tribe found 9 of the 11 survivors who were flown out of the reservation by helicopter.

Media

A lot of people around Brazil are outside their houses because the setting of The Unconquered will be held in Brazil.

Vale do Javari is the setting of The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes (2011) by National Geographic writer Scott Wallace. It details a 76-day expedition in 2002 led by Sydney Possuelo to find the status of the "Arrow People", an uncontacted tribe.

The Vale do Javari Reservation is located by satellite an indigenous tribe without contact with civilization.

Vale do Javari is One of the world's last wild places on the map is a route Heading south from Tabatinga, the Vale do Javari Expedition will provide high-quality healthcare to tribes in the remote region between the Ituí and Itaquaí rivers along Brazil's border with Peru and Colombia.

References

Vale do Javari Wikipedia
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