# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vicente-canas
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:16:18.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vicente-canas"
name: "Vicente Cañas"
slug: "vicente-canas"
description: "Vicente Cañas, S.J. was a Spanish Christian missionary and Jesuit brother, born in Alborea, Albacete, who is credited with making the first peaceful contact with the Enawene Nawe Indian tribe in 1974. Afterwards, he lived with them for over ten years, adopting their way of life and helping them with necessary medical supplies. Due to his help, the Enawene Nawe population rebounded from a low of 97 individuals to a population of over 430. Similar to Chico Mendes and Wilson Pinheiro, he died at the hands of cattle ranchers who were destroying the Amazon Rainforest."
tagline: "Spanish Christian missionary and Jesuit brother (1939–1987)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/56/Vicente_Ca%C3%B1as.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Spain"
  isoCode: "ES"
birthDate: "1939-10-22"
deathDate: "1987-04-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.44
  momentum:             17.32558139534884
  historical:           8.081930666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Vicente Cañas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "فيسنتي كاناس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ca%C3%B1as"
    title: "Vicente Cañas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ca%C3%B1as"
    title: "Vicente Cañas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ca%C3%B1as"
    title: "Vicente Cañas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ca%C3%B1as"
    title: "Vicente Cañas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ca%C3%B1as"
    title: "Vicente Cañas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Ca%C3%B1as"
    title: "Vicente Cañas"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%8F%D1%81%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B5"
    title: "Каньяс, Висенте"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1933788"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump