The Pankararu are found in indigenous lands and Pankararu Between Mountains, Municipalities Tacaratu, Petrolândia and Jatoba, interior of Pernambuco State, near the São Francisco and Coronel Murta, Minas Gerais, and also in various parts of the city of São Paulo and Greater Sao Paulo. In Pernambuco, are distributed in sixteen villages totaling about 6,000 inhabitants, the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo there are around 1500 pankararus mainly concentrated in the slums of Royal Park, South Zone, the Madalena and the Garden Elbe area east of the city.