Kambiwa

Kambiwa belongs to the dry interior of northeastern Brazil, where water sources and seasonal conditions shaped movement and settlement. The Kambiwá people have a longstanding connection to the Serra Negra in Pernambuco, an important place in their collective memory and cultural life. Their wider country includes the Moxotó region and neighbouring hills.

Colonial expansion linked the coastal sugar districts with cattle-raising country inland. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the conquest of the Pernambuco interior displaced Indigenous peoples from the Serra Negra. Kambiwá history remains closely tied to the mountain and to the routes and relationships connecting communities across the dry hinterland.