Riachao do Dantas

Riachao do Dantas is a Brazilian municipality in the nation of Sergipe. It is inside the center-west place of the nation. The call of the metropolis originated from a circulation, the Limeira, that passes near the city, the city became known best like "Riachao". In 1943, he gained the supplement of "Dantas", in honor of Joao Dantas Martins dos Reis, Comendador Dantas, political leader of first-rate status within the time of the Empire of Brazil, becoming vice-president of the then Province of Sergipe.

He was the owner of the most important sugar mill in the vicinity, the Fortaleza, and one of the shoppers of the Parish of Nossa Senhora do Amparo, the patron saint of the metropolis. Comendador Dantas had a excellent have an impact on inside the introduction of the municipality, however, it become Joao Martins Fontes, one of the main founders of the town then belonging to the Parish of Nossa Senhora da Piedade do Lagarto. The first houses that fashioned the city have been built on their lands, at the banks of the Limeira movement.