bandeirante

adventurers and slavers from São Paulo, who were responsible for exploring much of early colonial Brazil.

Its tough and cruel settler bandeirantes were the first Europeans to penetrate Brazil's interior on their long slaving forays against the índios.

On Friday afternoon, Santos and a few dozen other activists will set off from the Praça Panamericana in western São Paulo on a 1,000km (621-mile) walk to Brasília, the Brazilian capital, following one of the routes of the bandeirantes.

person who was born in the State of São Paulo, which is known as Bandeirante State