The Village Céu do Mapiá, founded in 1983 by Sebastião Mota de Melo, is located in the headwaters of Igarapé Mapiá, 19 miles from the Purus River in Amazonian South Mesoregion, between the Purus microregion and Boca do Acre microregion on the City of Pauini. The village is located within the National Reserve of Inauini-Pauini - one of the most preserved areas of the western Brazilian Amazon. In 1990, with the approval of the community, the Brazilian government created by the Decree No.