Maracanau

Maracanau is a municipality within the country of Ceara, Brazil. Its name comes from Tupi language and way "lagoon wherein maracanas drink", because of the presence of those birds flying over the lagoons inside the town's place. In 2016, there were about 224,084 population. The modern-day territory of the municipality, on the time of the advent of the first Europeans, was inhabited by means of Indians pitaguaris, Jacanau, Mucuna and turtles.

The holiday these ethnic corporations, arose the peopling of the Lagoon of Azusa and, later, of the lagoons of Jacanau and pajucara. In the year 1649, those Indians have received the go to of the Dutch, who cartografaram the farms of manioc and corn, in addition to the methods indigenous humans, in the course of the day trip searching for the silver mines in the Sierra de Sao Tome and Principe. These plots of cassava and maize have been accelerated throughout the time wherein Mathias Beck administered the islands from its navy base and administrative: the Fort Schoonenborch.