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Place in North, Brazil

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Kumenê Ukumene
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Coordinates: 3°29′17″N 51°29′05″W / 3.4881°N 51.4846°W / 3.4881; -51.4846
Country	Brazil
Region	North
State	Amapá
Municipality	Oiapoque
Population (2016)^[1]
• Total	1,056
Time zone	UTC-3

Kumenê (also Ukumene^[2]) is a Palikur Amerindian village in the Brazilian municipality of Oiapoque, Amapá. It is the largest village of the tribe.^[3]^[4]^[5] Kumenê is located on the Urucaua River^[5] in the Uaçá Indigenous Territory.^[6]

The area around the Urucaua River is the ancestral territory of the Palikur.^[7] In 1965, two linguists of the Summer Institute of Linguistics arrived in Kumenê to learn the language. They stayed for about 11 years, and founded the first school.^[3]

[n the 1980s, pastors from the Assembly of God of Macapá arrived and started to convert the population.^[8] They built a church and banned shamanism, traditional dances, nudism, and caxixi, a local alcoholic beverage. Nowadays, the village is Pentecostal.^[8]

The village contains the health centre for the region.^[8] The houses in the village are built on stilts.^[9] In 2017, there was a malaria outbreak in the region.^[10]

Kumenê can only be reached by boat, and is located about seven hours from Oiapoque.^[8] Monte Carupina, a 325 metres (1,066 ft) high mountain, is located near the village.^[11]

References

↑ "Caracterização do DSEI Amapá e Norte do Pará, conforme Edital de Chamada Pública n. 2/2017" (PDF). Ministry of Health (Brazil) (in Portuguese). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May 2018. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
↑ Pierre Grenand and Marie-Françoise Prévost (1994). "Les plantes colorantes utilisées en Guyane française". Journal d'agriculture traditionnelle et de botanique appliquée (in French). 36–1: 146.
1 2 "Palikur". Socio Ambiental. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
↑ Stan Anonby (2007). "A report on the creoles of Amapá". Journal of Language Survey Reports. 20: 10.
1 2 "Expressão feminina na Aldeia Kumenê". Padre Nello (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
↑ "Mulheres indígenas de Oiapoque realizam VII Assembleia da AMIM e intercâmbio sobre plantas medicinais". Instituo Iepé (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
↑ Martijn van den Bel (2009). "The Palikur Potters: an ethnoarchaeological case study on the Palikur pottery tradition in French-Guiana and Amapá, Brazil" (PDF). Cayenne: Institute National de Recherches Archéologiques. p. 41.
1 2 3 4 "Médico do Programa Mais Médicos resgata saber tradicional de tribo indígena no Oiapoque, Amapá". Pan American Health Organization (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
↑ Patricia Leandro-Reguillo, Richard Thomson-Luque and Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro (2014). THE AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS SETTLEMENTS: TIPOLOGIES ANALYSIS FOR MALARIA ELIMINATION. ASTMH annual meeting 2014 The American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. p. Abstract.
↑ Emilie Mosner (2020). "Resurgence risk for malaria, and the characterization of a recent outbreak in an Amazonian border area between French Guiana and Brazil". BMC Infectious Diseases. 20. doi:10.1186/s12879-020-05086-4. PMC 7249302.
↑ "Monte Carupina". Peakery. Retrieved 27 March 2021.

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