Community Tourism in the Mumbuca Quilombo community and Jalapão State park, Tocantins state, Brazil
This is a community project established in the Mumbuca Quilombo community, founded by two women, Ilana and Miriam.
At 35 km from the town of Mateiro, in the midst of the Jalapão State park, in the Tocantins Brazilian state, the silent, small and welcoming Mumbuca Quilombo community awaits you to reveal the unique natural richness of the region.
The community is mostly made up of the descendants of slaves from Bahia, but it is, in reality, the result of the encounter of these individuals with the indigenous tribes that populated the region, and these traces can be visibly found in the features of people’s faces.
Tourism here started pretty recently, and until 2001 the community neither had roads nor received electricity.
This is the community where the tradition of the precious caipim dourado was born. `