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Aimoré (Botocudo / Krenak)

1535 – present
Native nationSouth America

The Macro-Jê 'Botocudo', named for the wooden discs in their lips and ears, who held the Atlantic forest of the Rio Doce and Mucuri and raided the sugar coast and gold roads for three centuries from the deep woods.

Targeted by Dom João's royal 'just war' of 1808 and cleared with gunfire and smallpox-laced gifts through the 1800s; reduced to remnants, their Krenak descendants endure today on a small land on the Rio Doce near Resplendor in Minas Gerais.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Aimoré (Botocudo / Krenak) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1535 · 1808 · 1901.

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