Remanso

Remanso is a municipality within the country of Bahia within the North-East location of Brazil. Remanso become at the start inhabited via indigenous human beings of the Acoroase ethnic group. Refugees of armed conflicts in the nearby municipality of Pilao Arcado arrived within the nineteenth century. The location was fertile and because of its area at the Sao Francisco River, supplied an excellent web page for cattle ranching and fishing. The location quick attracted new residents who founded the metropolis of Vila de Nossa Senhora do Remanso do Pilao Arcado in 1857.

This became an impartial municipality on August 9, 1900 underneath the call of Remanso. Under Brazilian Federal Law no.10/77 of January 28, 1977 the municipality turned into relocated 7 kilometres from its unique place in 1974 for the development of the Sobradinho Dam. The new vicinity, known as Nova Remanso,become built via Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco. The municipality lost a quarter of its territory with the development of the dam and the old city is now submerged below the Sobradinho Reservoir.