There are at least two "Northeast". One is the northeast coast, which goes from Bahia to Maranhão - Northeast Creole. The other Northeast, in the words of Gilberto Freyre, is that of the "dry-sand creaks underfoot", the "harsh landscapes aching in the eyes" of the "figures of men and animals stretching almost into El Greco's figures." It is no longer the sedentary Northeast of large land monoculture, filming but the Northeast of leather and cattle culture. Northeast of whitish bones and cloudless blue. Antonio Conselheiro, Father Cícero, Lampião, Luiz Gonzaga. Northeast of the country culture. But Brazil Sertanejo is not limited to this region only. It goes from the rough to the savannah, through the caatingas. It penetrates Central Brazil, with its agricultural activities and its traditional pastoral economy, the mestizaje taking place basically between whites and Indians, with weak black participation. As Darcy Ribeiro saw it, there was conformed "a particular type of population with its own subculture, the country, marked by its specialization in grazing, its spatial dispersion and identifiable features in the way of life, family organization, power structure, typical dress, seasonal fun, diet, cooking, worldview, and a religiousness prone to Messianism.