Bananal Island
Bananal Island () is a large
island in the state of
Tocantins in
Brazil.
Formed by two branches of the
Araguay, Bananal is the largest river island in the world (at 20,000 km², it is twice the size of
Lebanon or
Jamaica).
Bananal is part of a national park and is a very popular destination for
ecotourism. There are no
roads on the island so the only
transport is by
boat.
In the last 50 years the native inhabitants of the island, of the
Carajá tribe, have been reduced to a few hundreds. They are now vastly outnumbered by Brazilians of non-Indian descent.
