Sao Francisco do Conde

Sao Francisco do Conde is a municipality in the state of Bahia within the North-East place of Brazil. Sao Francisco do Conde covers 262.856 km2, and has a population of 38,838 with a populace density of 150 population per square kilometer. It is located 67 kilometres from the nation capital of Salvador. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics Sao Francisco do Conde has the very best awareness of Brazilians of African descent in Bahia. Sao Francisco do Conde is home to Campus dos Males, one of the campuses of the University of International Integration of African-Brazilian Lusophony.

The campus opened in 2013. This city was built on land granted to Fernao Rodrigues Castello Branco in 1559, who donated his belongings within the following year to Francisco de Sa, the son of the third Governor General, who constructed the Real de Sergipe sugar plantation in 1563. The Count of Linhares ordered the development of a convent and church on a hilltop in the Bahian Reconcavo in 1618. The location changed into best settled by using the Portuguese after wars with native people of the Paraguacu and Jaguaribe rivers. Slavery existed in Sao Francisco do Conde as early as 1563. It later became the city of San Francisco do Conde.