Cocorobó reservoir
The dammed reservoir spreads in fingers across the landscape, covering the original site of Canudos and giving the map its largest and most striking form.
Tabula geographica minimalis · Brazil
9.8967° S / 39.0264° W
A rebuilt sertão town beside the Cocorobó reservoir, whose waters cover the site of the original Canudos





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Canudos sits in the dry sertão of northern Bahia, surrounded by caatinga scrub and low hills. Its name is closely tied to Brazilian history: the settlement founded by the preacher Antônio Conselheiro was destroyed in the War of Canudos in 1896 and 1897, a conflict made famous by Euclides da Cunha's book Os Sertões.
The map shows an unusual layer of that history. The original site was later flooded by the Cocorobó reservoir, and the present town was built nearby. From above, the reservoir is a wide, irregular body of water with branching inlets reaching into the dry land, and the modern streets form a modest grid beside it. A Canudos map poster sets that water against the plain lines of the town.
Beyond the town, roads and tracks cross open, sparsely settled country, and the lack of dense development makes the reservoir the dominant shape on the sheet. The area around the old site is protected as a state park that marks the war. It is a small place with a large place in Brazilian memory, and the map reflects that without adding clutter.
The dammed reservoir spreads in fingers across the landscape, covering the original site of Canudos and giving the map its largest and most striking form.
Present-day Canudos is a compact grid of streets beside the water, laid out after the old settlement disappeared beneath the reservoir.
Around the town, thin roads cross caatinga country with few buildings, so the map is dominated by blank space, water and a few long lines.
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Cur Canudos
Canudos has a place in Brazilian literature and history that few towns its size can claim. A poster of its map suits readers of Euclides da Cunha, families from the Bahia sertão, and anyone drawn to places whose history is written into the landscape.
Personalise the title, subtitle and coordinates, then choose from five styles, including the warm Sand and the high-contrast Noir. The $9 download includes 300 DPI PNGs and print-ready PDFs in six sizes.
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| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3, 11.7 × 16.5″) | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2, 16.5 × 23.4″) | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm (18 × 24″) | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm (19.7 × 27.6″) | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm (24 × 36″) | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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