Lineage
Quilombola communities
Also known as: quilombola, quilombo, Afro-Brazilian maroon communities, comunidades quilombolas
Afro-Brazilian communities descended from people who escaped or were freed from slavery and built autonomous settlements — quilombos — many of them deep in the Amazon estuary. Quilombola territory in Pará and Amapá is a significant part of the lower-Amazon agroextractive economy: collectively-titled land where açaí, andiroba, and Brazil-nut are harvested under community governance. Their constitutionally-recognised land rights make them durable stewards of standing forest.
Quilombola communities are the Afro-Brazilian peoples of the [[amazon-basin|Amazon]] descended from those who escaped or were freed from slavery and founded autonomous settlements — quilombos.
Who they are
Across the [[amazon-estuary|estuary]] of [[para|Pará]] and [[amapa|Amapá]], quilombola communities hold land that, under Brazil’s 1988 constitution, can be collectively titled to the community in perpetuity. That legal form matters ecologically: collectively-held forest is far harder to sell, clear, or consolidate than individually-held parcels. Quilombola territory tends to stay forested, and its economy tends to stay agroextractive.
These communities harvest [[acai|açaí]], Brazil-nut, andiroba and copaíba from standing forest under their own governance. A meaningful share of the lower-Amazon cooperatives in the federal organic registry are quilombola or quilombola-adjacent — placing Afro-Brazilian land stewardship directly inside the directory.
Why this entry
The Amazon directory cluster names a people, a crop, and a biome; without this page it would silently erase the Afro-Brazilian half of who actually keeps the estuary forest standing. It connects [[extractivism|extractive]] practice to constitutionally-protected collective land tenure, and stands beside [[ribeirinho|ribeirinho]] and [[caboclo|caboclo]] as the third strand of the estuary’s human fabric.
See also
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- Shares approach with: [[ribeirinho]]
- Member of: [[lineage]]
- Contained by: [[amazon-basin]]
- Practices: [[extractivism]]
- Stewards: [[varzea]]
- Cultivates: [[acai]]
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Cultural
stewarded by
- Baru gathered by quilombola, geraizeiro and Indigenous communities of the Cerrado
- Cagaita gathered by quilombola, geraizeiro and Indigenous communities of the Cerrado
- Jatobá gathered by quilombola, geraizeiro and Indigenous communities of the Cerrado
- Mangaba gathered by quilombola, geraizeiro and Indigenous communities of the Cerrado
- Pequi gathered by quilombola, geraizeiro and Indigenous communities of the Cerrado
shares approach with
- Geraizeiros a Cerrado traditional people with overlapping commons-based economy and collective land-tenure struggle
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