Cachoeira

Municipality

Cachoeira on the Paraguaçu River

Flag

Seal

Location in Bahia

Coordinates: 12°35′4″S 38°57′21″W / 12.58444°S 38.95583°WCoordinates: 12°35′4″S 38°57′21″W / 12.58444°S 38.95583°W

Country

Brazil

State

Bahia

Meso-region

Metropolitana de Salvador

Micro-Region

Santo Antônio de Jesus

Government

• Mayor

Fernando Antonio da Silva Pereira

Area

• Total

395.223 km² (152.596 sq mi)

Population 2016 (est.)

• Total

35,013

• Density

89/km² (230/sq mi)

Demonym(s)

Cachoeirano

Postal code

44300-xxx

Area/distance code

(00)55

National Historic Heritage of Brazil

Designated

1973

Reference no.

843

Cachoeira (Portuguese, meaning the waterfall), is an inland municipality of Bahia, Brazil, on the Paraguaçu River. The town exports sugar, cotton and tobacco and is a thriving commercial and industrial centre.

The municipality contains 56% of the 10,074 hectares (24,890 acres) Baía do Iguape Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2000.

First settled by the Indians, it was later settled by the Portuguese families of Dias Adorno and Rodrigues Martins. It became known as Nossa Senhora do Rosário in 1674. It was a strategic area and was linked with the mining city of Salvador, the former colonial capital. It became a parish on December 27, 1693. It also became Vila de Nossa Senhora do Rosário do Porto da Cachoeira do Paraguaçu in 1698.

Sugar cane farming, gold mining on rio das Contas, increased traffic on royal streets, and navigation on the Rio Paraguaçu combined to boost the regional economy at the beginning of the 18th century. In early 1800, the Cachoeirense society became very important politically. It actively participated in the war of the Independence of Bahia.

The town became a city under the imperial decree of March 13, 1873 (Provincial Law 43).

Cachoeira is considered a national monument of the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico Artístico e Nacional (IPHAN)

It is currently undergoing a bit of a tourist revival, and is a centre of candomblé.

Nineteenth-Century Facade

Church of the Third Order of Carmel

Carmel Inn

Building Facades

This article incorporates a translation from the Portuguese

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