Itaberaba

Itaberaba stands in the Bahian interior, in the country of the Serra do Orobó. A cattle estate called São Simão occupied the site before a settlement grew around its chapel. Antônio de Figueiredo Mascarenhas acquired the property in the early nineteenth century and built a house of prayer dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary. By 1817 the developing settlement was known as Rosário do Orobó, its name joining the devotion of the chapel to the surrounding hills.