Dados genéticos sobre o Maranhão

**Don_Oliverr** · 09-05-2021, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Sasaolo68

I feel that the state of Maranhão is probably the state with most "zambos" in Brazil, am i right? The other Northeast states often have "caboclos" in the semi-arid and pardos on the coast, meanwhile Maranhão is one the only states that Natives mixed a lot with Africans.

Yes, Maranhão is perhaps the state with the greatest amount of indigenous genetics distributed by the general population, and it still has a good amount of African DNA too, so there are many "zambos/cafuzos". The Caucasian part, on the other hand, comes mostly from Portuguese/Azoreans, Syrians and Lebanese. Right here in my little town there’s a family of Lebanese immigrants who own the only medical laboratory in the city, pure Italians I only met two and they were priests in our parish.

There are many caboclos here too, but you are right to say that the number of zambos is, in proportion, greater than in other states in the Northeast. Usually you find blacks closer to racial purity in quilombola communities and on the coast. On the other hand, the majority of whites in the capital are concentrated in the upscale neighborhoods of São Luís, and in the interior they are a minority slightly mixed. Pardos almost always have indigenous characteristics, once I searched for "canela people" on Google Images and it was amazing how each individual seemed to remind me a little of someone I knew.

Daven · 09-05-2021, 05:46 AM

Originally Posted by Don_Oliverr

Although it is a poor state, we have good tourist spots. In the interior of the state, there are the Chapada das Mesas National Park, Poço Azul, the Historic Center of Alcântara, the Delta of the Rio Parnaíba and the Lençóis Maranhenses. In the capital there is the Historic Center of São Luís and there were beaches, but unfortunately they are all polluted now.

Why is it poor?

**Don_Oliverr** · 09-05-2021, 06:08 AM

Originally Posted by Daven

Why is it poor?

Until the 19th century, the state's economy was supported by cotton and sugar cane plantations, which were maintained by slave labor. After the abolition of slavery, as it was not yet an industrialized state, it became economically isolated and declined. After that, the state spent years in an oligarchy that did more harm than help, and a large part of the population, living in poverty, became dependent on government social programs that never definitively resolved this situation.