Aviamento

Credit and marketing system where goods are supplied on credit and paid for in extractive products, mainly rubber and Brazil nuts

Caboclos

Indigenous river people

Campesinos

Small farmers

Castanhais

Brazil nut groves

Castanhales

Estates

Castanheiros

Brazil nut gatherers

Colonos

Colonizers

Ejidos

Land reform co-operatives (Mexico)

Fob

Free on board

Fundo

Farm

Garimpeiros

Gold prospectors

Hylea

Amazon Basin

Nordestinos

Northerners

Patrao

Merchant

Patrones

Merchants

Ribereños

River-dwellers (Bolivia)

Ribeirinhos

Indigenous river people

Seringal

Rubber estate

Seringueros

Rubber tappers

Swidden

Traditional forest farming practice including 'slash and burn'.

Terra firme forest

Forest not subject to flooding

Varzea

Seasonally flooded forest