Cinta Larga

Cinta Larga
Matetamãe
Total population
1,954 (2014)[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Brazil ( Rondônia  Mato Grosso)[1]
Languages
Cinta Larga[2]
Religion
Traditional tribal religion[1]

The Cinta Larga (or Cinturão Largo) are a people indigenous to the western Amazon Rainforest of Brazil, numbering almost 2,000. Their name means "broad belt" in Portuguese, referring to large bark sashes the tribe once wore. The tribe is famous for shadowing Theodore Roosevelt's Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition, making no contact.

  1. ^ a b c "Cinta larga: Introduction." Instituto Socioambiental: Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 31 March 2012
  2. ^ "Cinta Larga." Ethnologue. Retrieved 31 March 2012.