Tapeba

The Tapeba are an Indigenous people of the Ceará River country near the coast of northeastern Brazil. Their history is bound to the colonial village of Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres de Caucaia, where people from several Indigenous communities were gathered. In 1723 the Crown granted land to the inhabitants of the village and their heirs. The river’s mangroves have remained an important source of food and livelihood.

The later city of Fortaleza lies here.