BAARAZNAU WAPICHAN: etnolinguística fitogeográfica Wapixana

Historically, existing vegetation in the north-eastern state of Roraima has become known in the maps and reports of the eighteenth century Portuguese as "campos," accompanied by the geographical reference: the Branco River. Over time, additional terms were introduced, especially by the colonizers, to designate the phitogéographie the region, such as "Cerrados", Sudanese and "Lavrados. None of the terms used took into consideration the indigenous classifications to characterize such a biome. I intend, with this work clarify these terminologies. Wapixana, a group of Arawak linguistic affiliation, are the inhabitants in these areas by excelence Campesina. I plan to analyze, therefore, in ethnolinguistic perspective, the different terminologies used by Wapixana to characterize the different landscapes of the north-eastern state of Roraima. For Wapixana, fields, baaraznau are fruits of the mythical geography, where older men have interacted in the natural, through the calving of large tree or through the death of huge animals, to construct a cultural landscape, which until today is transformed by Wapixana. In this context, it is possible to assume that the dispersion of large fields of Roraima has a high contribution of native peoples who have crossed and who have inhabited. So I conclude that the analysis reveals Wapixana phitogéographique ethnolinguistic landscapes full of cultural meanings that reveal, in part, the vision of world group denominator.