Acajutiba

Acajutiba is a municipality within the kingdom of Bahia within the North-East vicinity of Brazil. According to the Belgian historian Vincent van Houtte, the territory that now belongs to the municipality Acajutiba served as Dutch base for replenishment and espionage in times when the GWIC maintained colonies inside the place. To Van Houtte, who reviewed documents and secret correspondence signed by means of John Maurice of Nassau.

The strategic region of the place, close to the capital of the Portuguese colony and next to a bowl that would permit river navigation in Itapicuru have been instrumental in founding in 1637, the agreement, which then advanced to a small fortification which have become referred to as Fort Hoop, in keeping with van Houtte, in honor of the administrator and robust architect Adrien de Hoop.

With the crisis in the colony and the autumn of the Dutch mastery of the Brazilian northeast, the citadel fell into disuse and changed into deserted. What became left become destroyed by way of explorers between the centuries 18th and 19th But consistent with the historian, it's miles nevertheless feasible to peer a few rubble close to the banks of the river Itapicuru, regarded by using the Dutch as rivier van donkere heuvels in English river of black hills, features bodily that relate to the ones determined at the river Bastiao as it's miles regarded by way of the locals margin in which supposedly there has been a settlement and fortification.