Surrounded by fresh and salty waters - those of the rivers Amazon and Tocantins and those of the Atlantic ocean the island of Marajó, separated of Bethlehem by the Tocantins river, is the greater marine-fluvial island of the world, with near 50,000 km2s of extension.
Scene of most famous pororoca of the world - phenomenon of formation of gigantic waves in the encounter of waters of the Amazon river with the sea - the island is also well-known by the ceramics marjoara and to lodge the majors flocks of buffalos of the country.
Marajó was inhabited by diverse groups of natives who found in the great island the ideal atmosphere to live and to develop to their art potter, completed by an admirable series of geometric drawings.
Great amount of pieces unearthed of the island of Marajó, today is distributed by European and North American museums. They are vases, funeral ballot boxes, pots, plates, pitchers and jugs widely decorated.
The Aruã tribe, original of the Antilles, was well-known for being most numerous in the bravest island and in the confrontations with the Portuguese. Its native culture data of 2,500 years and assumes that it lasted until century XVIII, when the group began to disperse by the region of the Amazon river until disappearing completely, being only the registries of the cronistas of the time. The same happened to the creative tribe of the Tapajós, that inhabited the sickle of the Tapajós river.
Many of fluvial beaches of the island of Marajó are characterized by their long extensions: Araruna has two kilometers, Pesqueiro, 13, and Caju, 15. One of the most frequented is Joanes, that is six hours of distance in boat of Soure, one of the 12 existing communities in the island, where there are also extensive properties of young of buffalos, some of which work like lodging for tourists.