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Cactuses o different kinds are the main vegetation at Raso da Catarina and are important characters of the place.

BRAZIL | Monday, 14 January 2013 | Views [235] | View Larger Image

Cactuses o different kinds are the main vegetation at Raso da Catarina and are important characters of the place.

Raso da Catarina is one of the driest places in Bahia, Brazil. It hardly ever rains there and, when it does, it's vegetation automatically becomes green.
It is so hostile that it was used as a refuge by Brazilian outlaws that lived in the Northeast of the country during the first half of the 1900th century: the so called

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In spite of being so difficult to live in, Raso da Catarina has been inhabited bu Pankararé indians for many centuries. Today, a few families that descend from the Pankararés still live in that area. Here is Binho, patriarch of one of these families.

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