Clevelândia, Oyapock: cartographies and heterotopias in the 1920's decade

Despite the Oyapock River border had been attached to Brazilian territory in 1900, the official colonization occurred only in the 1920's. The Brazilian Federal Government strategy was to build an agro-colony called Clevelândia. Between 1924 and 1927, it was transformed into a penal colony, caus...

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Main Author: Carlo Romani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 2011-12-01
Series:Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222011000300003&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt