Man of the Hole

Man of the Hole

The Man of the Hole (c. 1960s – c. July 2022), or the Tanaru Indian, was an Indigenous person who lived alone in the Amazon rainforest in the Brazilian state of Rondônia. He was the sole inhabitant of the Tanaru Indigenous Territory, a protected Indigenous territory demarcated by the Brazilian government in 2007. It is not known what language the Man of the Hole spoke, what his people called themselves, or what his name was, although it may have been Tupian. He was the last surviving member of his people following their genocide by Brazilian settlers in the 1970s–1990s and chose to remain isolated until his death in 2022. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Man of the Hole is the 267th most popular explorer (up from 413th in 2019). (up from 4,066th in 2019)