In the rainforest area of the Amazon basin, a culture of strong indigenous base has developed. "The whole area was originally occupied by indigenous tribes with specialized adaptation to the rainforest. Most of them dominated the farming techniques practiced by the Tupi groups of the Atlantic coast, which the discoverers came across. exceptional fertility and easy food supply, through hunting and fishing, flourished indigenous cultures of the highest technological level, such as Marajó and Tapajós, which could maintain villages with a few thousand inhabitants "(Darcy Ribeiro). It was these indigenous groups who experienced the march of Lusitanian colonization, the advancement of the missionaries, the spread of nheengatu, and the massive migration of northeastern people at the time of the rubber boom. And so a new population was forged in the region - and a "sociocultural variant" of Brazilian society was crystallized, with its own forms and practices, and its religiosity "founded on the syncretism of indigenous pajelança with a vague cult of saints and dates. of the Catholic religious calendar ". It is this interethnic but fundamentally cabocla Amazon with its saints and "visions", its cities and its surviving indigenous groups that will be addressed in this program.