Orobo

Orobo is a Brazilian municipality within the kingdom of Pernambuco placed in the Agreste. The initial profession of Orobo was given via settlers from Paudalho. It stands proud Manoel Jose de Aguiar, who settled next to a water supply, then known as the Eye of the Beasts, as it become normal to use the source as a drinking fountain for the animals. This would be the first call of the municipality. In order to expand agriculture, mainly sugarcane, the burnings took place. The location got here to be known as Queimadas. The settlement started out to seem in the higher part, below the jurisdiction of Bom Jardim. Municipal Law No. 21, dated September 7, 1914, created the District of Queimadas, which have become the Village, with the aid of Law No. 47, dated September sixteen, 1925.

By State Law No. 1,931, dated September 11, 1928, signed by way of Governor Estacio de Albuquerque Coimbra, the city of Queimadas was increased to the class of Municipality and the seat, to that of town. By Decree-Law 311 of March 2, 1938, a overview of the toponymy of Brazilian municipalities became completed by using the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics IBGE. The Municipality came to be called "Orobo", because of the existence of any other municipality in Bahia with the call Queimadas. Orobo is the call of a circulate, a tributary of the Tracunhaem River, which cuts the municipality west-east.