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Engenho Vitória
Engenho Vitória is a Engenho, sugarcane mill founded in the nineteenth century, located on the banks of the Paraguaçu River in the countryside of Cachoeira, Bahia, Brazil. History The year 1812 marks the beginning of the construction of Engenho Vitória, on the banks of the Paraguaçu River, an important watercourse in Bahia, near Cachoeira. The work was sponsored by the Commander (order), Commander Pedro Bandeira, an important merchant of his time and one of the pioneers in the use of steam navigation in Bahia. Built in the period of Colonial Brazil, the Engenho building is connected to the Slavery in Brazil, slavery process in Brazil, as it was a place that used slave labor during its operation as a sugar business. The mill consists of a three-level ''Sobrado (architecture), sobrado'', based on an architectural project that imagined the construction of the building with a "T" shape. The building includes covered access between the ''engenho'' and the ''Sobrado (architectur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Engenho
Engenho () is a colonial-era Portuguese term for a sugar cane mill and the associated facilities. In Spanish-speaking countries such as Cuba and Puerto Rico, they are called ingenios. Both words mean ''engine'' (from latin ''ingenium''). The word engenho usually only referred to the mill, but it could also describe the area as a whole including land, a mill, the people who farmed and who had a knowledge of sugar production, and a crop of sugar cane. A large estate was required because of the massive amount of labor needed to yield refined sugar, molasses, or rum from raw sugar cane. These estates were prevalent in Brazil, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and other countries in the Caribbean. Today, Brazil is still one of the world's major producers of sugar. Sugarcane in Brazil Sugarcane was not introduced to Brazil until the Portuguese established the production of it in the middle of the 16th century. They controlled the leading sugar industry in Madeira already, but they wanted to g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
