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Man of the Hole

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Man of the Hole has received more than 1,515,593 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Man of the Hole is the 413th most popular explorer.

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  • 54.17

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Man of the Hole ranks 413 out of 498. Before him are Louis-Gustave Binger, François Levaillant, Theodor Kotschy, Lars Christensen, Tobias Furneaux, and Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen. After him are Kristian Prestrud, Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, Richard Maack, Alexander Burnes, Valerian Albanov, and Lachlan Macquarie.

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