Enchente

Overview

In the 1970s, at the height of the military dictatorship, without any consultation, information or respect for the Xokleng Laklãnõ people, the government built a dam at the port of the “Ibirama Laklãnõ” Indigenous land, in the upper Itajaí valley – Santa Catarina, called North Dam, which, with two other dams, would protect the entire population non-indigenous people who settled on the banks of the Itajaí River in the 19th and 20th centuries. Occurs that the North Dam, the largest of the three, destroyed the lives of the Xokleng Laklãnõ people, flooded the floodplain lands, covered existing villages and crops, destroyed the water source of the life that came from the clear, fishy waters of the Itajaí do Norte river. It was a general disaster. For the Xokleng Laklãnõ people, a muddy and rotten lake was left, which fluctuates due to rain.