Ponta da Serra

What this is

Ponta da Serra is an Indigenous territory in Brazil, home to the Wapichana/Macuxi, covering about 154 km², recognised in 1982. RAISG records 315 inhabitants. Indigenous-held forest is among the best-conserved in the basin; detections inside it are a measure of pressure on the people who keep it standing.

Detections centred inside · as of 2026-09-12

• Illegal-mining scars: 0 — Amazon Mining Watch, cumulative since 2018
• Deforestation alerts (DETER, 12 months to 2026-09-05): 0 — drawn from the 6,000 largest alerts in the Legal Amazon, so small clearings are not included
• Active fires are a 48-hour feed and change daily — see them live on the dashboard below

A detection counts here when its centre point falls inside the boundary at the time of the monthly bake; extents are the detections' own areas and can straddle the edge. A detection is a satellite-seen change, not a verdict on legality.

Key figures

• Area (GIS): 15,399 ha · 154 km²
• Type: Tierra Indígena
• Country: Brazil
• Centre: 3°36′N 60°53′W

From orbit

Esri · Maxar World Imagery — an undated mosaic, not a dated capture.

See it live

• Open on the live map — flown to the boundary with the Indigenous lands layer on; toggle fires, alerts and mining over it
• Open the 3D globe

More Indigenous territories in Brazil

• Yanomami — 95,377 km²
• Vale do Javari — 85,741 km²
• Alto Rio Negro — 79,808 km²
• Menkragnoti — 49,492 km²
• Trombetas/Mapuera — 39,899 km²

Source

Boundary, category and area: RAISG (Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information). Mining: Amazon Mining Watch (Earth Genome, CC-BY 4.0). Alerts: INPE DETER. Joined by Canopy Watch on 2026-09-12.

Elsewhere

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