Guaitaca

The Guaitacá, also called Goitacá, inhabited a long stretch of the southeastern Brazilian coast and its river valleys. Their country extended into Espírito Santo, where forests and rivers meet the Atlantic. During the sixteenth century, Guaitacá communities confronted Portuguese expansion and took part in shifting conflicts and alliances involving neighbouring Indigenous peoples, Portuguese settlers and French visitors to the coast.

The later city of Vitória lies nearby.