A Contribution to Nimuendaju's Ethno-Historical Map using IBGE'sDatabase, and another mapsAbstract. This workpaper locates indigenous people who dwelt the Brazilian CentralPlateu and surroundings areas during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It hasused as main source the Curt Nimuendaju's ethnohistorical map, made in 1944 andfirst published by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statics) in 1981.As another source of information it has used the Cestmir Loukotka'sethnolinguistic map, published by the Association of American Geographers in1967. Furthermore, this research also carried out an unprecedented mapping ofthe location of ethnic groups, as well as the Luso-Brazilian settles, using themunicipal historical descriptions within IBGECidades database. Are illustrated through temporal maps the successiveoccupations (and depopulation) of the indigenous region at intervals of 50 to50 years, from the year 1700 until the year 1900. Theconclusions are that there were at least 200 ethnic groups in the BrazilianCentral Highlands and surrounding areas.Keywords: Ethnogeography, Indigenous Cartography, Central Brazil1. IntroductionThefirst relevant studyconcerned to map the location of indigenous people in Brazil is due to CarlMartius (1867a). Said author has grouped all Brazilian indigenous languagefamilies that had news. It was the first time used the term Ge to be named the language family nowcalled in Brazil Je. His choice wasbased on the fact that most of the people speaking the languages of this familyuse the term ge to call yourself as Apinagez, Crangez (Senna 1908: 14), among others as Kempokatage, Piocobje, Kemkateje, Kanakateje, Krengez etc.The Ge language family covers most peoplewho live (and lived) into the savannas in the states of Goias, Minas Gerais, Bahia, Maranhao and Piaui, called in this article as Gerais of Brazilian Central Plateau at the time of theLuso-Brazilian invasions. Besides them, some Tupi, Kariris, Pimenteiras among others, were alsopresent at this area somehow (Santos 2013).This workpaperwill seek to present through maps and tables the multi-ethnicity which existedin the Brazilian Central Highlands and surrounding areas. To do that, it wascollected information from ethno cartography made by Curt Nimuendaju (2001[1944]), Certmir Loukotka (1967), and historical maps produced during the 18thand 19th centuries, actually archived in libraries in Portugal and Brazil. Inaddition, it was used the IBGE Cidades'municipal historical database to increase information that has never beenmapped before.2. Mapping Indians from Brazilian CentralPlateauBrazilian Central Plateau ethno-linguistic map around 1700 A.D. 3. ConclusionThisworkpaper sought to present through maps and tables the multi-ethnicity whichexisted in the Brazilian Central Highlands and surrounding areas. In total 200 groupswere identified living within this region, of whom 112 were already contained on the Nimuendaju's map. Among the88 added, 61 were identified on the Loukotka's map, 22 from the IBGE Cidades' municipal historical database,and five in both sources.In regardsto the places where these ethnic people were located, this research identified 509places, in which 208 were already contained in the Nimuendaju's map. The others301 sites were extracted as follows: 154 in the Loukotka's map, 139 from IBGE Cidades' database and eight takenfrom historical cartography (maps archived in Portuguese and Brazilianlibraries, such as ConselhoNacional Ultramarino and SociedadeGeografica in Lisbon, BibliotecaPublica in Evora-Portugal, and BibliotecaNacional in Rio de Janeiro). This informationabout sites and ethics groups have been showed on