Correntina

Correntina is a municipality inside the state of Bahia in Brazil, 500 km from Brasilia and 980 km from Salvador. Correntina become first mentioned within the dispatches of the Entradistas and Bandereirantes who visited the town in 1700 and 1790. The Decree Federal Law of nº 311 signed by Getulio Vargas on March 2, 1938, authorizing that the States made the territorial divisions, it turned into that, for the State Decree of nº 10.724, signed for the Federal interventor Landulpho Alves, in 30 of March 1938, the Village obtained the forum from City, below the baton of the Intendant Major Felix Joaquin de Araujo, but, they had handiest come to commemorate in 01 of January 1939, considering the delay in the artwork of if communicating.

The "Correntina", "Arojado", "Saint Antonio", "Guara" and "Rio do meio" rivers run close to or thru Correntina, and the Island of the Ranchao lies inside the Correntina river. 1,200 meters faraway from the principal town, the "Sete Ilhas" shape an archipelago, ordinary of the metropolis's herbal environment.