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Fiber is more important in the area by far. With different uses in the country has a limited market, but not abroad, for ships to various countries in Europe and North America. It is inexhaustible quantity of palm production in the Amazon. They are made brushes, brooms, ropes thin and very thick, with the characteristic that they do not rot in water, so they are preferred for use on boats and docks from the river ports.

It is a very abundant palm Venezuelan Amazon, Colombia and Brazil, located on either of the equator between latitudes 4N and 4S. The plant produces a fiber beard about a meter long, more or less dark brown or blackish, flexible and resilient, used in making brushes, brooms, crafts, ropes and ropes used mostly for boats on the rivers . The author admired see on fluctuating or floating docks in Manaus, Amazon River, giant rolls of rope of Pias, with nearly two meters tall, and a thickness of 8 to 10 cm. each rope. This fiber has a duration in the water until many years, besides being very flexible and light, while the ropes float on water.

This palm is preferably located near rivers and streams of black water in some tributaries of the Orinoco, rivers Atabapo Guainía - Black River, and tributaries of the Casiquiare Caripe Pamoni, Siapa, Vasiva, Pacimoni and tributaries of them. While in the Amazon of Venezuela is in great quantity, is in Colombia and Brazil where it is extracted and sold. Labor is the collector of indigenous product, starvation wages.

We must remember that the fiber boot form of an enormous beard, is very dangerous operation, because in her nest insects, scorpions, centipedes, snakes, all poisonous. Besides the palm trees are sometimes located in the tangled jungle and a few isolated sites. To cut the beard of each palm fiber, it shall be put to a real beating to kill or scare away dangerous animals that inhabit it. After the fiber is secured in a special way in the form of cones, with vines of the rainforest (vine mamure), then take it to the reservoirs.

Other products listed are being exploited in limited quantities, but the increase in these holdings would be very useful not only for our Amazon, but to humanity itself who would benefit from it. The Coroba seje and edible oils are very fine quality and also with medicinal properties. The moriche da wood, fiber harsh for strings (such as cumare), flour food from its fruit and oil. The copaiba da "olive wood" or "Copaiba balsam, quite therapeutic use. The Pará Yubi or nut, is used in Brazil to extract various products, being there in the northern states, an important industry, but instead in the Upper Orinoco, just know of its existence the Aborigines living there.

Written by :

Henrik Linde Bratfeldt

 

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written by marcos, mai 11, 2010

hola queria saber si sabe como puedo traer piasava a argentina! pues vivi en bahia un tiempo y trabaja con esa fibra y queria seguir trabajando aqui.. si puede ayudarme le aradecere..

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