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Since the 1960s, the advance of the ocean has already caused the destruction of more than 500 homes in Atafona, a district of São João da Barra, in the north of the state of Rio de Janeiro. Hundreds of families have already been left homeless, in a process that is accelerated by the diversions of the Paraíba do Sul River, which supplies the urban centers of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, causing increasing silting at the mouth. In recent decades, dozens of blocks have sunk to the bottom of the ocean. For the approximately 7,000 remaining inhabitants of Atafona, the emotional losses are even more painful than the material ones. #Atafona Subscribe to TV Folha https://goo.gl/EBg4ag Read more on Folha https://bit.ly/34Tl3iL Instagram / folhadespaulo