Cachoeira

Cachoeira is an inland municipality of Bahia, Brazil, on the Paraguacu River. The metropolis exports sugar, cotton and tobacco and is a thriving business and business centre. The municipality incorporates 56 according to cent of the 10,074 hectares Baia do Iguape Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2000. Sao Felix is positioned immediately throughout the Paraguacu River from Cachoeira; it also borders the municipalities of Conceicao da Feira, Santo Amaro, Saubara, Maragogipe, Governador Mangabeira, and Muritiba.

The location of gift-day Cachoeira changed into domestic to severa Amerindians previous to the appearance of the colonial duration. Paulo Dias Adorno and Afonso Rodrigues arrived in the vicinity in 1531 from Portugal. They and their descendants entered right into a century of conflict with the present indigenous populace and which ultimately resulted inside the expulsion of local Brazilians from the place. Mem de Sa, Governor-General of the Portuguese colony of Brazil from 1557-1572, first attempted to expel the local population from Cachoeira in 1559.

Alvaro Rodrigues Adorno, son of Antonio Dias Adorno, arrived in 1595 and tried peace settlements with the Amerindian populace. Fighting continued among the two groups into the seventeenth century and hindered the settlement of the location through the Portuguese. Captain-General Gaspar Rodrigues Adorno attempted a final expulsion of the indigenous populace in the early seventeenth century and his son, Joao Rodrigues Adorno, rebuilt the a residential fort and a chapel in 1654. The chapel, Capela de Nossa Senhora da Ajuda,have become the primary in Cachoeira.