Itabuna

Itabuna is a municipality in Bahia, Brazil. It is the sixth largest city in Bahia by means of populace after Salvador, Fei ra de Santana, Vitoria da Conquista, Juazeiro and Ilheus. It had an estimated 220,386 residents in 2016. Itabuna covers a total place of 401 rectangular kilometres and has a populace density of 550 citizens in keeping with square kilometer. The Portuguese arrived in the 16th century. The location became inhabited with the aid of the Tupiniquim, an indigenous group of the larger Tupi humans. You can come here and explore this place.

The Portuguese hooked up the Captaincy of Ilheus inside the place, but it failed because of assaults through the nomadic Aimore human beings, who emerged from the indoors of Brazil in the 1550s. The vicinity turned into populated by means of non-native Brazilians from 1867, in particular via migrants from Sergipe. Felix Severino de Oliveira, later referred to as Felix Severino do Amor Divino, and Jose Firmino Alves, his cousin, founded Fazenda Marimbeta, a farm, inside the municipality. A road stays with the call inside the Conceicao of Itabuna. Itabuna become emancipated from Ilheus in 1910. In 1978, the metropolis have become the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Itabuna.