Rio Toototobi

Rio Toototobi (sometimes known in English as "the Toototobi River"), is a river in the Amazon Rainforest of Amazonas, Brazil. It is a tributary of the upper Rio Demini near the headwaters of the Orinoco.

The river flows through in the territory of Kopenawa near the border of Venezuela. The so-called "Toototobi Yanomami "índios" take their name from this river. Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, a shaman and Portuguese-speaking spokesperson of that tribal group, was born close it it. The area may be a starting point for the epidemics of measels and other diseases which decimated the local peoples starting in the 1970s.

References

* [http://members.aol.com/archaeodog/darkness_in_el_dorado/documents/pdf_files/edtfpr_dialogue.pdf] "Engagement of anthropologists in public dialogue with members of study communities", University of Arizona
* [http://www.umich.edu/~idpah/SEP/sepmdrpt.html] Report of the Medical Team of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro on Accusations Contained in Patrick Tierney's "Darkness in El Dorado"
* [http://www.nku.edu/~humed1/darkness_in_el_dorado/documents/0252.htm] When Did the Measles Epidemic Begin among the Yanomami?