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Their transshipment stations on the Tapajos and Madeira rivers have linked up the heart of Brazilian farm country and up-and-coming Amazonian ports such as Itacoatiara, Santarem and Barcarena.

Similar concerns surround an around 580 miles railway known as Ferrograo that would move grains from the heartland toward the Tapajos River for eventual shipping abroad.

The influx posed a grave threat to Korap’s Munduruku people, 14,000-strong and spread throughout the Tapajos River Basin, in Para and Mato Grosso states.

He wanted to firm up the details of his plan to go down the well-traveled Paraguay River and the �ղ��貹��ó�� River all the way to where it met the Amazon River.

“The people that live in villages along the �ղ��貹��ó�� river are in extreme poverty,” he said.