The Island

Rogerio Brito (left), 9, Adriel Brito (center), 13 and Luziulene Brito, (right), 9, during a school lesson. They are taught by their family member Joina Brito in a shack built to serve as a school. In Queimada dos Britos lives around 60 people. In the oasis everybody is a relative, cousins intermarrying frequently as a normal course. 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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Rogerio Brito (left), 9, Adriel Brito (center), 13 and Luziulene Brito, (right), 9, during a school lesson. They are taught by their family member Joina Brito in a shack built to serve as a school. In Queimada dos Britos lives around 60 people. In the oasis everybody is a relative, cousins intermarrying frequently as a normal course. 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.