Editing Apiaka (section)

==Demography==

The Apiaká were once many, and used to live in at least one village which counted 1,500 inhabitants, additionally to many smaller ones. In the Cuiabá archives the census registered 2,700 Apiaká in the mid-19th Century. By 1912, the population in contact with [[white people]] had been reduced to 32 people (Nimuendajú, 1948, p. 311), because of a massacre that led many of the survivors to run away into the forest. Those who disappeared into the forest presumably kept living there and forming families. According to the report of the oldest Apiaká, the descendants of those living in the forest know that the others try to make contact with them, but they only show themselves when they want.

In 1978 71 persons lived in the Apiaká Indigenous Land. They were reduced to 52 in 1984 because many Indians moved to the towns of Juara and Porto dos Gaúchos. By 1990, however, with the arrival of several families from the State of Pará, their number had increased to 92 people, distributed in three villages.