Itabuna

Itabuna on the map of Brazil

Itabuna is a city in the southeast of the Brazilian state of Bahia. It has 213 656 inhabitants ( 2009 estimate ) and is located 450 km south of Salvador. Itabuna is a relatively young city, was established in 1910 from a settlement founded in 1849. It is located in the interior, but only a short distance from the port city of Ilheus.

In contrast to the state capital, Salvador da Bahia, which is an internationally recognized business center, Itabuna is located in a rural area, who lives economically primarily from agriculture. Industrial installations are formed here rather weak. The cocoa and cotton, however, is a stable and reliable source of income due to the manufacturing industries in Salvador da Bahia. The service sector, however, learned in the last few decades a steady growth.

In Itabuna and on the whole so-called cocoa coast boasts reinforced evidence of African influences. Starting with the food, to the language that has taken up and incorporated many African words. It is due to the fact that the port of Ilheus was a popular transit point for slaves and many Africans remained after the end of slavery.

It is known for the Itabuna Jequitiba Center Plaza, a shopping mall in the city center, a meeting place for young people.

History

The settlement Itabuna began to expand in the last century because drover da Conquista used the area on their way to Vitória as a rallying point. The region is through the waterfall of the river Cachoeira ( German: "waterfall" ) severed.

A steady settlement did not begin until 1867, mainly by migrants from the state of Sergipe, including Sevirino Félix de Oliveira, who later became known as " Félix Sevirino do Amor Divino " and by his cousin José Firmino Alves, which attributed the founding of the city Itabuna will. Felix Sevirino founded on the entrance of the farm " Marimbeta " and today there is still a street with the same name in the municipality of Conceição.

Growth in the next 30 years is so strong progressed, that the inhabitants declared their independence as a city, which was rejected by the State Government in the State of Bahia. A new successful attempt was made in 1906 after a specific site for the establishment of the administrative headquarters was pledged.

Diocese Itabuna

• Diocese Itabuna