Cunhambebe was an Indigenous Brazilian chieftain of the Tupinambá tribe, which dominated the region between present-day Cabo Frio and Bertioga. He lived in a village in Iperoig.
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Quoniambebe as depicted on the pages of The Journal of the Brazilian Institute of History and Geography from André Thevet's La Cosmographie Universelle published thirty years before the example below.
Cunhambebe, as portrayed by André Thevet, French cosmographer who accompanied the expedition by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon.
1642 depiction from a book by Ulisse AldrovandiAbout this person
Country
BrazilStatus
deceased
Dates
Died 1555
Written about in
8 languages
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