The Purí (also puri, puri-cororado, coroado, colorado, telikong and paqui) tribe live along the northern coast of South America and in Brazil.
They are not extinct but have mixed with people of Paraiba do Sul though the last original groups were last found in the lowlands of the Mato Grosso.Due to the disappearance of their society having occurred prior to the twentieth century, they were still seen as "faithless, primitive half-man half-beasts," in accordance to the Portuguese Empire's general view on indigenous peoples (already manifested in Africa), focused on ethnology rather than history.
