The paraupava's myth in toponimic

Abstract

According to the registers left by the first explores, the name Paraupava came true in the Bananal Island. During the rainy season, the island stays submersed under two thirds of water, forming a large pond, identified on the XVI like the Paraupava lake. And the river that rised from it and foward the Amazonas river was given the name of Paraupava, which can be verified in the cartographic of that epoch which represented the lake and the river. To analyze the Paraupava river, the Paraupava lake, it is necessary to do a study about the geography of the flags from São Paulo: from where they left, which paths they reached, goals and interests, because it was because of it we obtained knowledge with their expeditions through the country that became possible to these explores to perpetrate the indian ?s myth Paraupava ?s Lake and identify the Paraupava ?s River, first denomination of the nowadays Araguaia River, as a consequence to conditions the Portuguese cosmographers do create their scientific geographic letters from the interior of the country to the Portuguese America.
KEYWORDS: Paraupava's myth. Etnolinguistics. Araguaia river.