The Island

Aldemir Brito, 39, drinks coffee early in the morning in his house at Queimada dos Britos. In this small oasis around 60 people live in, but the locals are not sure, since there is always someone going away or coming back. 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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Aldemir Brito, 39, drinks coffee early in the morning in his house at Queimada dos Britos. In this small oasis around 60 people live in, but the locals are not sure, since there is always someone going away or coming back. 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.