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What are /usr/ports/distfiles/ ?

I thought it where backup copy's of all the make files you installed
on your system but when i do for example tar -xjf
cvsup-without-gui.amd64.tarbz2 the cvsup-without-gui.amd64 looks like
a binary file ? Can somebody explain to me please how distfiles work ?

Thx