The Island

Aurideia Brito feeds her nephew while Aldemir watches them in their house in the Queimada dos Britos. In this small oasis around 60 people live in. 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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Aurideia Brito feeds her nephew while Aldemir watches them in their house in the Queimada dos Britos. In this small oasis around 60 people live in. 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.