Sento Sé is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality' ...
in the
state
State most commonly refers to:
* State (polity), a centralized political organization that regulates law and society within a territory
**Sovereign state, a sovereign polity in international law, commonly referred to as a country
**Nation state, a ...
of
Bahia
Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ...
in the
North-East region of Brazil. It covers , and has a population of 40,989 with a population density of 1.28 inhabitants per square kilometer. Sento Sé is located from the state capital of
Salvador.
Sento Sé has a peculiar history. It is among the five cities that had to be flooded because of construction of the
Sobradinho Dam. The new Sento Sé erected in 1974, was being gradually populated by residents of the former headquarters, which plunged into the waters.
History
The name Sento Sé comes from an ancestral indigenous tribe called Centoce. The first foreign settlers were Portuguese sugar cane producers that built mills in that area. The foundation of the municipality was in 1832 by a provincial decree.
In the 1970s the city passed for one of the most complicated moments. The construction of
Sobradinho Dam obligated the moving of the city and another little communities close to the river to another place 62 kilometers away, in 1974.
See also
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List of municipalities in Bahia
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Bahia (BA), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Bahia is divided into 417 municipalities, which were, until 2017, grouped into 32 microregions, which were grouped into 7 mesoregions.
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Loja Maçônica Deus Harmonia e Amor nº 149*
Urucé
References
Municipalities in Bahia
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