The Island

Julião Brito, 7, plays next to the small garden use to farm a few vegetables. The locals of Queimada dos Britos don't grow many plots of land since they are afraid of the accelerating advance of the dunes that have already covered several houses. No one really knows when the village was founded but the legend says that the founder Manuel Brito, when running away from home due to a drought that was scorching his homeland, he ended up settling down in the only non-sandy portion of the Lençois.

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Julião Brito, 7, plays next to the small garden use to farm a few vegetables. The locals of Queimada dos Britos don't grow many plots of land since they are afraid of the accelerating advance of the dunes that have already covered several houses. No one really knows when the village was founded but the legend says that the founder Manuel Brito, when running away from home due to a drought that was scorching his homeland, he ended up settling down in the only non-sandy portion of the Lençois.