Sao Jose de Piranhas

Sao Jose de Piranhas is a Brazilian municipality of the nation of Paraiba located in the Immediate Geographical Region of Cajazeiras. Its territorial region is of 677 km ² and its population, in keeping with estimates of the IBGE of 2018, become of 20 053 population. It is presumed that the territory in which San Jose de Piranhas is placed become constituted by way of the antique sesmarias belonging to the House of the Tower and by the farmers of Pianco that settled there inside the beginning of century XVIII.

Everything suggests that there were farms within the region, due to the fact in 1764 the sesmaria turned into required and is meant to were donated to the church. There have been being built houses and fashioned a town that obtained the call of San Jose de Piranhas, to be located to the banks of River Piranhas. The municipality has an essential ancient website this is the farm known as Sitio Pinheira, region wherein facts related to the cangaco length and the revolution of 30 within the backlands of Paraiba. His political emancipation happened on September 24, 1885.