WHERE DOES THE XANGÔ LIVE? LOCATION FACTORS OF THE AFRICAN RELIGIOUS TERREIROS TO THE MARGINS OF ÁGUA FRIA RIVER - RECIFE (CENTURIES 19TH AND 20TH)

The text discusses the location factors of “terreiros” of Xangô in the city of Recife, in the context of the decade 1930, in an area adjacent to the city of Olinda, to the margins of Água Fria old river (current Channel Vasco da Gama-Peixinhos), tributary of the Beberibe river. Revisits thus within the North Zone of the city, the historical reasons and the geographical factors of the spatial concentration of centers of afro-religious worship on the banks of these water courses, that decisively influenced in the formation of the suburbs formerly located in the area known as Beberibe de Baixo and adjacencies, in the course of the end 19th century and first half of the 20th century. In light of this period are listed the african-religious leaders and their terreiros, cartographically represented along the river above-mentioned.