Santa Maria do Boiaçu

Place in North, Brazil
0°31′18″S 61°46′59″W / 0.5218°S 61.7830°W / -0.5218; -61.7830Country BrazilRegionNorthStateRoraimaMunicipalityRorainópolisPopulation
 (2010)[1]
 • Total224Time zoneUTC-4

Santa Maria do Boiaçu is a village in the Brazilian municipality of Rorainópolis, in the state of Roraima. It is located on the Branco River,[2] and inside the Baixo Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive Reserve.[3]

Overview

Santa Maria do Boiaçu is an isolated village along the Branco River. Except for Santa Maria and a few riverside settlements, the region is uninhabited.[4] In 2018, the Baixo Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive Reserve was created which aims to protect the area while allowing for sustainable economic activities for the communities along the river.[5] Between 1960 and 1982, it was a district [pt] of Caracaraí,[6] but has become part of the municipality of Rorainópolis.[7]

Santa Maria do Boiaçu has an airfield, an elementary school, the only high school in the region, and is connected to the telephone network and internet.[8] The village has a medical post was which renovated in 2017.[7]

The 2019 cutbacks and restructuring of FUNAI, the organisation in charge of the indigenous territories, by Jair Bolsonaro[9] has resulted in Yanomami Amerindians leaving their territory and building camps in the vicinity of the village.[3]

The BR-431 [pt] highway was supposed to connect Santa Maria do Boiaçu with the road network of Roraima, however as of 2020 only 45.6 kilometres of the planned 125 kilometres have been constructed.[10]

References

  1. ^ Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) (16 November 2011). "Sinopse por setores". Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  2. ^ de Rezende Veras, Costa Ribeiro & Rodrigues Santos 2020, p. 23.
  3. ^ a b "Baixo Rio Branco, Roraima. Onde o Brasil é esquecido". Notibras (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  4. ^ Maria Goreti Rosa-Freitas (2007). "An ecoregional classification for the state of Roraima, Brazil. The importance of landscape in malaria biology". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 102 (3).
  5. ^ "Reserva Extrativista Baixo Rio Branco-Jauaperi". Socio Ambiental (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  6. ^ "Caracaraí". IBGE (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  7. ^ a b "SANTA MARIA DO BOIAÇU - Unidade recebe primeira grande reforma e ampliação na estrutura" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2019-10-16. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  8. ^ de Rezende Veras, Costa Ribeiro & Rodrigues Santos 2020, p. 26.
  9. ^ "New Brazilian President Takes Aim at the Amazon". Spiegel. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  10. ^ "BR - 431" (PDF). Ministry of Transport via Archive.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2021.

Bibliography

  • de Rezende Veras, Antonio Tolrino; Costa Ribeiro, Wagner; Rodrigues Santos, Eder (2020). "Uma incursão ao Baixo Rio Branco (Roraima/Amazonas), saneamento básico". Confins (in French). 47 (47). doi:10.4000/confins.31823.