## Introduction  
Africa has continued to be the most important continent in supporting and maintaining the structure of the world over the last five centuries, particularly with regard to the formation of the New World, America and the enrichment and strengthening of modern Europe. Brazil finds itself in a unique position in this global context, since it is the contemporary political unit with the highest historiographical figures recorded for the forced importation of various African population groups from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. In this sense, there is a need for more accurate interpretations of not only the movements of its populations from their first formation onwards, but also the overall result of these processes within the geographical space. In other words, a greater understanding and representation of past and present diaspora dynamics must be sought, along with a better interpretation of resistant and surviving territorialized identities.  
The demand for a clear understanding of the complexities of societal dynamics is great, and there are few disciplines better placed than geography and cartography to assist in the representation and interpretation of the many issues emerging at this historic moment. Geography remains the best instrument for observing what has happened, as it shows the signs of spatial historicity, that is