Santa Maria do Boiaçu

Santa Maria do Boiaçu
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Coordinates: 0.5218°S 61.7830°W / -0.5218; -61.7830
Country	Brazil
Region	North
State	Roraima
Municipality	Rorainópolis
Population  (2010)[1]
• Total	224
Time zone	UTC-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. "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. "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.