Nanuque

Nanuque lies in the Mucuri valley, where the river crosses the wooded eastern interior toward Bahia and the Atlantic. Indigenous communities known by names including Nak-Nanuk and Giporok inhabited this wider region before colonial settlement expanded along the river. Their lands formed part of the forest country contested by settlers and Indigenous peoples, particularly after the Portuguese crown authorised an offensive war against Botocudo groups in 1808.