Mucuri

The upper Mucuri country lies in the forested hills of eastern Minas Gerais, where the Todos os Santos joins the Mucuri River on its way to the Atlantic. Indigenous peoples, including groups known to colonists as Botocudos, inhabited these valleys. From the late eighteenth century the expansion of colonial occupation brought growing pressure on their lands, followed by the offensive war authorised against Botocudo peoples in 1808.