Sao Miguel do Tapuio

Sao Miguel do Tapuio is a Brazilian municipality in the kingdom of Piaui. Long earlier than the agreement of Piaui, even if adventurers of the Old World competed inside the conquest of the New World, the Tacarijus Indians had already handed the Ibiapaba mountain variety and took over the most stunning lands in Piaui. The earliest documentation of the Tacarijus Indians dates lower back to the sixteenth century and turned into written by the Franciscan priest Andre de Thevet, who traveled via the Brazilian Northeast inside the 1580s and learned of this ethnic organization occupying lovely lands surrounded through swamps, rivers, plenty of palm timber and leafy bushes, particularly carnauba, buriti, tucum, babassu, gameleira, ipe and others, as well as large crystalline water springs that emerged from the soil.

Today, these lands are called Tiririca, Roca Velha, Iraucuba, Canabrava, Eye of water, Canto, Sao Luis, Lagoa and Brejo Grande. Historians consider that the Tacarijus came from Rio Grande do Norte, a nation additionally, belonging to the northeastern place of Brazil. Because of the contacts with the French of whom they have been faithful buddies, the Tacarijus had a culture much advanced to the alternative neighboring tribes. However, there is no record of the first encounters among the French and Tacarijus, however there is data that for several years, the French who have been already going to the island of Maranhao, lived with that tribe and with it marketed paints, resins, gold.