Feira de Santana

Feira de Santana is a city in Bahia, Brazil. It is the second one-maximum populous metropolis in the kingdom, with a population of 612,000 in step with IBGE's estimate. It is located one hundred km northwest of Salvador, Bahia's capital metropolis. These cities are related by BR-324, a 4-lane divided motorway. The St-Anne-of-the-Fountains Plantation became mounted within the 18th century with the aid of Domingos Barbosa de Araujo and his spouse Anna Brandoa. Located at the brink of Bahia's "backcountry", it have become a center for the cowboys on their manner from the pastures there to the port of Cachoeira.

The cowboys' practice of starting annual fires to clear antique brush in the end worsened the region's herbal aridity to the factor in which the cattle enterprise collapsed, but with the aid of then Brazilians and foreigners had begun adopting the place as their home. A metropolis began to develop with extensive streets which had been bordered by means of business homes serving the area's growing population. It turned into incorporated as the second one city in Bahia after the capital and the 31st in the entirety of colonial Brazil.