Population
In
the entire Amazon live about 600.000 natives. Approximately
one thirth of them lives in the Brazillian part of the forest.
They have kept their culture - so far is was possible -
and live in the traditional ways. Which means that they
supply themselves with food by fishing, hunting and collecting
fruit. The industrial branche is a threath to their way
of living in many ways. The most important is the destruction
of their environment.
During the second half of the 19th century there came more
and more relatives of the Europeans to the Amazon. Nowadays,
just in the brazillan part of the Amazone, are about eiht
million non-natives.
In the Amazon are many types of race, but we can't speak
of a real (united) culture. They live seperated from eachother
and the natives live together with their own group. One
of the main reasons for the seperated way of living is the
infrastructure. Because there aren't any roads it stays
very had to get in touch with another culture.
