Ibirapitanga

Ibirapitanga is a municipality and a town inside the State of Bahia, Brazil, located inland from the coast approximately forty five km. At the 2010 census the municipality had 22,610 population. The city was based in 1915 when Jose Meneses de Oliveira built his domestic at the banks of the Cachoeira River, and it got here to be referred to as Cachoeira do Pau. Later the call become changed to Ibirapitanga, a phrase within the Tupi language for "crimson wood" this is, Brazilwood.

The municipality changed into officially created in 1961, carved out of the indoors portion of Camamu municipality, however got here into impact in 1963. Ibirapitanga municipality is split into 4 elements, the headquarters city of Ibirapitanga, and the rural divisions: Itamarati, Camamuzinho and Novo Horizonte.Ibirapitanga is bounded by way of the municipalities of Camamu to the east, Marau to the southeast, Ubaitaba to the south, Ubata to the west, Gandu and Pirai do Norte to the north and Igrapiuna to the northeast.