Terra Indígena Awá

Area inhabited by Awa Guajá and Isolados de Mão de onça.

2

Peoples

279

Population in the IL

117 mil

Area (ha)

305

News

Legal situation Homologada
Legal jurisdiction Amazônia Legal
States (FS) MA
Isolated indigenous? Sim
Frontier Stripe? Não
Overlapping Areas 0

Map

Towns

Towns with incidence in this Indigenous Land

Towns - Terra Indígena Awá

# State (FS) Municipality Municipality Area (ha) IL area in the Municipality (ha) IL area in the Municipality (%)
1 MA Bom Jardim 659,053.10 81.76
0.07
2 MA Centro Novo do Maranhão 836,979.30 75,777.33
65.00
3 MA Governador Newton Bello 114,407.40 441.00
0.38
4 MA Nova Olinda do Maranhão 245,261.50 8,350.73
7.16
5 MA São João do Carú 90,807.70 25,976.83
22.28
6 MA Zé Doca 214,010.90 7,114.21
6.10

Territorial Rights

Official recognition stage: Homologada (Decreto s/n - 20/04/2005)

Find out which is the stage off the official recognition processo of this land.

1 - Em Identificação
2 - Identificada
3 - Declarada
4 - Reservada
5 - Homologada
6 - Registrada no CRI e/ou SPU
7 - Restrição de uso
8 - Dominial Indígena
75% Finished

Homologada por Decreto s/n - 20/04/2005

Legal history

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Related Normative Acts - Terra Indígena Awá

Document Stage Number Date Publication
Portaria Declarada 76 03/05/1988 06/05/1988
Portaria Declarada 158 08/09/1988 09/09/1988
Despacho Delimitada 11 21/07/1992 21/07/1992
Portaria Declarada 373 27/07/1992 29/07/1992
Portaria Declarada 731 08/08/1997 14/08/1997
Portaria Declarada 1.261 26/11/1997 28/11/1997
Portaria Declarada 125 01/03/1999 03/03/1999
Outros Declarada 08/10/2002 07/11/2002
Decreto Homologada s/n 19/04/2005 20/04/2005
Edital Homologada 1/2012 27/02/2012 28/02/2012
Contrato Homologada 107 11/09/2012 12/09/2012
Resolução Homologada 227 07/11/2012 26/11/2012
Resolução Homologada 227 07/11/2012 26/11/2012
Portaria Homologada 36 15/01/2013 16/01/2013
Portaria Homologada 1.009 15/09/2013 19/08/2013
Outros Homologada s.n. 28/11/2013 28/11/2013
Portaria Homologada 631 08/04/2014 09/04/2014
Portaria Homologada 478 12/11/2021 16/11/2021
Portaria Homologada 436 04/08/2023 07/08/2023
Outros Restrição de uso 171 10/12/1987
Portaria Em Estudo 1.921/E 09/08/1985
Portaria Declarada 200 03/03/1998
Portaria Restrição de uso PP/3.767 13/11/1987

Peoples and Demography

In accord with recent data 279 peoples living in this IL.

Peoples Linguistic family Language
Awa Guajá Tupi-Guarani Guajá
Isolados de Mão de onça
Year Population in the Indigenous Land Source
2022 279 IBGE
2010 42 Funasa
2009 39 Garcia
2006 37 Figueiredo

Environment

Fitofisionomia

Tipo de Cobertura Vegetal Cobertura (%)
Floresta Ombrófila Densa 100.00

Bacias Hidrográficas

Bacia Abrangência (%)
Gurupi 45.02
Litoral Noroeste MA 31.27
Mearim 23.71

Biomas

Bioma Cobertura (%)
Amazônia 100.00

Management

Distribution of the presence of the State through Funai and Sesai

National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) Special Secretariat of Indigenous Health (SESAI)
Regional Coordination Office (CR) Special Indigenous Health District (DSEI)
Maranhão coverage Maranhão (MA) coverage

Agents

Agent Type
Posto Juriti FUNAI

Indigenous Organizations

There are records of 2 Indigenous Organizations in the region

Name Acronym
Articulação das Mulheres Indígenas do Maranhão Amima
Associação Arari

Projects with indigenous participation

There is no stored information about projects for Terra Indígena Awá.

Pressures and Threats

Threats to the environment and to the life of the indigenous peoples - Terra Indígena Awá.

Potential risks and existing problems

Category Type
Exploração de Recursos Caçador
Exploração de Recursos Madeireiro
Fundiário Posseiro
Fundiário Fazendeiro

Deforestation in the Legal Amazon

This subject present the deforestation data analysis made by the Brazilian Amazonian Rainforest Satellite Monitoring Project (Prodes) run by the National Institute of Space Research (INPE). The Prodes aims to map deforestation in forest areas of Legal.


Total identified of deforestation until year 2000: 20631 hectares
Total identified of deforestation until 2023: 41996 hectares

Hotspots

Area covered by the point: a hotspot indicates the existence of fire in one picture element (pixel), which varies from 1 km x 1 km to 5 km x 4 km. This pixel may contain one or several distinct fires, but these will be represented as a single spot. If a fire is very extensive, it will be detected by some neighbouring pixels: in other words, various hot spots will be associated with a single large fire.

Overlapping Areas

Não existem sobreposições desta Terra Indígena com Unidades de Conservação.

News

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