Nowadays, the battle between the Tucuxi and Pink River dolphins is the first image that comes to mind when one thinks of the Sairé Festival, held annually in the Alter do Chão district of Santarém, Pará.

The inauguration of the first lighthouse, which was built at the mouth of the Pará River, was in March 1852. It was a cement tower, covered with glazed white brick and measured 12.5 metres in height.

By the end of the 17th century, at the previously named Ilha Grande de Joanes, the first cattle farms were established with a flock that came from Portugal. The animals were introduced in the island by the colonizers, beginning a long crossbreeding process.

Vicente Juarimbu Salles was a leading researcher and promotor of Amazonian history and culture. Born in 1931 in Vila de Caripi, in the Igarapé-Açu municipality – 117km from Pará’s state capital Belém – he graduated in Social Sciences with an emphasis on Anthropology.