Itapicuru

 city, municipality

Itapicuru is a municipality in the state of Bahia. Its population in 2004 was 32,100 inhabitants.

The council was created in 1728. In 1876 he was visited by Antonio Conselheiro and his followers.

It is the poorest county in the state of Bahia, according to the Human Development Index of UNDP / UN.

In the city the population is usual, going to town on Monday to Friday, where you can observe the movement of people in the city is great. As the habitats and leisure guests can go to the thermal spa town which is open Tuesday through Sunday.

[6] Itapicuru, one of the oldest municipalities of Bahia, is a way to history: the colonization, through land grants, the first explorers and their saga, and the beginning: the Indian village, the first chapel, your church, the Franciscan convent at Mission Health Itapicuru Everything in it's history, past and present, and another one inseparable, and it is these lands that Pathfinders Portuguese came through the distribution of land grants made by the king of Portugal. Itapicuru, ancient Indian settlements and about this village, historian Consuelo Ponde de Sena tells in his book upon the testimony of President of the Province of Bahia from 01 pack of 1851 state report found the villages of the Indians of the Province of Bahia, its population civilização.Itapicuru name and indigenous (Tupi-Guarani), which means caroçuda slab, the species of rocks encountered by Indians in the region. Ancient Indian settlement that was inhabited by Kariri, and Payayás Tupinambás. The origin of this dates from the mid seventeenth century when the site in 1636, there was a Franciscan mission known as St. Anthony's Health or a small chapel was erected in 1698, named Our Lady of Nazareth's Itapicuru de Cima, depending petition to King Giraldo at Vicar Correia de Lima, which began receiving congruous from 1700. So is that a Royal Charter was addressed to the Viceroy of Brazil, seeking news about the location of Itapicuru to see if conditions had to be elevated village. Being within the conditions laid to deserve such a promotion, was elevated to parish of Vila Category by the Viceroy of Brazil, Earl Sabugosa on April 28, 1728. Therefore, studying the history of our old Itapicuru us relive the past of the historical legacy of our city and relate to the present.