Arara

Arara is a municipality within the state of Paraiba in northeastern Brazil. It is placed in the mesoregion of Agreste Paraibano and the microregion of Western Curimatau, 155 km from the state capital, Joao Pessoa. It is located on the high simple of Borborema at an altitude of 467 m above sea degree. Originally, the vicinity changed into occupied by way of the Cariri people. The nation-state changed into protected in Schinopsis brasiliensis bushes, whose wooden was black, acknowledged within the nearby indigenous language as Barauna. You can come here and explore this place.

The trees served as refuge for human beings touring to the nearby regions of Brejo and Curimatau to shop for flour, cassava and rapadura, simple foods available in those regions. The area turned into known as "Baraunas das Araras" because of the large variety of macaws that could be determined there as late as 1860, when the priest Jose Antonio Maria Ibiapina arrived inside the place from Ceara. He had significantly motivated the civilizing of the Curimatau place. He founded the Santa Fe sanitarium near the website online of modern-day metropolis, on land donated via Major Antonio Jose da Cunha, owner of lime deposits inside the region.