Kaimbe

The Kaimbé inhabit the dry interior of Bahia between the Itapicuru and Vaza-Barris river basins. At the heart of their territory is Massacará, where Jesuit missionaries founded a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity in 1639. The mission brought colonial authority into Indigenous country, while the expansion of nearby ranches later placed Kaimbé lands and labour under pressure from large landholders.