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Brazil covers an area of 851,195,500 hectares, and the Indigenous Lands (Tierras Indígenas or TIs), 654 of them in all, account for 115,499,953 hectares of this; in other words, 13.56% of the national territory is set aside for indigenous peoples. Most of the TIs are found in the region of the Legal Amazon: 417 TIs totalling approximately 113,822,141 hectares. The remaining 1.39% is divided between the north-east, south-east, south and centre-west of the country.

The indigenous population of Brazil numbers some 734,127 people, or 0.4% of the national population; of these, 383,298 live in urban areas. They are grouped into 227 peoples, half of which comprise less than 500 individuals in all. Only four – the Guaraní – have a population of more than 20,000. It is estimated that there are 46 peoples living in isolation or voluntary isolation.

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, The Indigenous World 2011

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