Joanes beach
Quiet.
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Salvaterra is a town of about 24,000 people on the great island of Marajó in Pará and one of the island's main gateways: travellers from Belém arrive at the port of Camará at its southern tip, and from here cross the small river to neighbouring Soure. It was a district of Soure from 1901 and became a municipality in 1961, known ever since as the «Princess of Marajó». Its land was once home to the Aruã people, part of a wide pottery tradition that spread across the island, known today as Marajoara ceramics. The municipality lies within the Marajó Archipelago Environmental Protection Area and runs a forest-and-lake ecological reserve just south of the town. Visitors come for its broad river beaches, among them quiet Joanes beach, and for the water buffalo that have become the island's emblem.
Quiet.
The island's emblem.
An old tradition.
Salvaterra, Marajó Island, Pará state
By ferry to Camará port, south of the town.