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Santarém / Tapajó

900 – 1600
Native nationSouth America

The Tapajó chiefdom at the meeting of the Tapajós and Amazon rivers, makers of the baroque modelled 'caryatid' vessels and one of the largest dark-earth town sites in Amazonia.

A warlike paramount chiefdom at contact, the Tapajó were described by 16th-century chroniclers, then shattered by slaving, epidemics and the Portuguese fort founded at Santarém in 1661.

Borders in 1301 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Santarém / Tapajó — the shape you scrub through changes in 900 · 1000 · 1301.

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