Tekoa Tenonde Porã, also known as Barragem's village, is the most populous Guarani Mbya village in Brazil. Approximately one thousand people live in this tekoa which, like the Krukutu village, was regularized in 1987 with only 26 hectares, an extremely small area that led to an unreasonable concentration of population that was detrimental to the Guarani way of life. The largest Guarani Mbya village is in São Paulo, where about 1000 people currently live, the village is part of a set of 9 villages on 16,000 hectares! There Guarani live like many years ago, before the Diluas (non-indigenous / white man) arrive here in Brazil, they conserve the forest, produce their food and even have vegetables that we can't find in the markets, because they are part of a project to recover the old indigenous roots. In their culture it is necessary for each village to be at least two hours from each other, so it is important to demarcate and make land available to them so that they can live as before. Knowing the village is an enriching experience and shows us how much they deserve respect and admiration. For more information about village visits, they have the website: https://tenondepora.org.br/aldeias/tekoa-tenonde-pora/. Next to the village is the Dam House and Comporta EMAE / Dam Billings which today is just a taste of what it once was. It is a deactivated dam where you can access the Billings Dam for fishing. It also has a playground for children and a road that connects with indigenous villages and São Bernardo, the building where Comporta was once home is an environmental defense headquarters.
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/9MZpPLqKX8UKKVHH6 .
