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Tefe

State Of Amazonas, Brazil
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About Tefe

Tefe is a municipality inside the country of Amazonas, northern Brazil. As early as 1620 the Portuguese Carmelites should already boast of converts many of the Muras, those natives of the Amazon hooked up round Lake Teffe and at the borders of the neighbouring rivers. Tefe, additionally referred to as Ega at one time, become the fourth of 8 aldeias founded by way of Carmelite missionaries among 1697 and 1751 along the Solimoes and Negro Rivers.

In 1759 the commandant Joaquim de Mello da Povoas transformed the Carmelite venture on Lake Tefe right into a metropolis, which he named Ega; it was elevated to a metropolis named Tefe in 1855. The challenge, known as Parauari, was originally installed on Ilha dos Veados 3 leagues from the area on the alternative shore of Lake Tefe, called nowadays via the name of Nogueira. It changed into abandoned due to a smallpox outbreak in the early 18th century and moved throughout the lake, wherein it stays nowadays.

The survivors had been taken to its gift web site by way of F. Andre da Costa in 1817.Henry W. Bates additionally describes in detail the cultural interactions of the natives with the ones inside the town from his ride within the 1850s. He describes that the natives found out Tupi in no time, and regardless of having a very big and numerous array of languages spoken all over the Amazon, Tupi turned into spoken "with little corruption along the banks of the main Amazons for a distance of 2,500 miles."

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