Jaguarari

Jaguarari belongs to the dry interior of northern Bahia, near the old mining country of Jacobina. Indigenous people lived in these hills before Portuguese cattlemen and prospectors advanced inland. In the seventeenth century farms and cattle pens spread through the district, while seekers of gold and silver entered the Jacobina lands. The rock walls around Jaguarari preserve much older paintings and engravings, including geometric and animal forms.