List of extinct Indigenous peoples of Brazil
At the time of the discovery of Brazil by the Europeans, a total of 2,000 Indigenous nations, divided into several thousand tribes, existed in Brazil. The total number of Native tribes which inhabited present day Brazil at the time of first contact is disputed and difficult to ascertain. The names of large number of tribes who were exterminated as a result of intertribal warfare are not recorded anywhere and so is the case of several smaller tribes who were wiped out by the colonizers. Curt Nimuendajú gives a list of 1,400 nations in his monumental work Mapa etno-histórico do Brasil e regiões adjacentes, but he ignored many smaller (extinct) tribes in Eastern Brazil, and was at the time of writing unaware of some other tribes which were uncontacted at that time. Currently only 200 nations (790 tribes) are alive, with no survivors being reported for the remaining nations. However, this doesn't mean their bloodlines are extinct; only their cultures. Brazilian Pardo and Mestizo population have mostly unknown indigenous backgrounds, some or several of them likely stemming from extinct cultures. The Bandeirantes hunted and enslaved indigenous peoples in the then unexplored interior of Brazil from the 16th to the early 19th century. The indigenous peoples were eventually acculturated and integrated into European civilization. Most of the recorded extinctions of the Brazilian tribes were caused by warfare with the neo-Brazilians and from the epidemics which were sometimes deliberately spread by the colonizers. Intertribal warfare between various native Brazilian tribes also caused a significant number of extinctions. For example, the Matses, one of the tribes in the Vale do Javari region exterminated at least 4 smaller tribes during the 20th century. Famous extinct Brazilian nations Out of the more than 1,800 extinct nations and thousands of tribes, names are available for only a few of them. Abacaxis - Abacaxis River Abaeté - Tupian (?). Minas Gerais. Extinct since the 18th century Abaeté do Rio Madeira - Same as Abacátes (?). Rio Madeira, Amazonas Abarés - Northeast Brazil Acauas - Also known as Acauans - Lower Amazon Achouaris - Rio Jurua and Rio Solimoes Acroa - Bahia province - related to Xokleng people Addaraias - Rio Negro Adorias - Near Amazon River - extinct since the start of the 19th century Aipatsé - Previously inhabited the Xingu river region - became extinct during the 1980s Akontsu - Still alive but fated to be extinct in a near future. Only survivors are six people. Five are elders. Rondônia. Anumania - Previously inhabited the Xingu river region Aracadaini - Amazonas Araés - Goias Araraus - Rio Jatapu, Amazonas Ariquéns - Rio Jamari, Rondonia Amena-Diapá - Once inhabited the region around São Felipe river, in the Acre - Amazonas border Bacuéns - Minas Gerais Beaquéos - Mato Grosso do Sul Boimés - Sergipe Boraris - Para Burukäyo - Related to the Arikapú Cabixiana - Near Corumbiara, Rondônia. Became extinct during the 1940s. Caeté - Once inhabited the region near the mouth of river São Francisco to the