The Tremembé or Teremembé people are an indigenous people in the state of Ceará in Brazil. Existing members of this ethnicity are centered in the Almofala district of the municipality of Itarema, and a few more in the neighboring municipalities of Acaraú and Itapipoca, on the Atlantic coast of Ceará, some 150 km north of the state capital of Fortaleza. CEDI estimates that the Tremembé were 3,060 until 1986, but a more recent estimate places their numbers at merely 1,175. The Tremembé people live in tipis. The Tremembé were one of the few Tapuia that lived on the Brazilian coast on the advent of European contact c. 1500. The Tremembé ranged ove...
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