Cachoeira travel guide

Cachoeira (Portuguese meaning the waterfall), an inland town of Bahia, Brazil, on the Paraguaçu River. The town exports sugar, cotton and tobacco and is a thriving commercial and industrial centre.
First settled by the Indians, it was later settled by two Portuguese families of Dias Adorno and Rodrigues Martins, it became a parish and was known as Nossa Senhora do Rosário un 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 canes were added as well as gold mining on rio das Contas and increased traffic on royal streets and navigation on the Rio Paraguaçu. and boosted its regional ecomony in the beginning of the 18th century, in the beginning of 1800, the Cachoeirense sociedy brought a great political importance and actively participated on 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. (...) more....