Recôncavo Baiano

Recìncavo Baiano

In the area around the Baía de Todos os Santos, known as the Recìncavo Baiano, are many little townships whose buildings have shown little

change since colonial times. To many of them the sugar-cane grown on the fertile clay soils brought prosperity; from others the cattle-drovers set out to seek fresh grazing for their herds in the sertão. Nowadays oil derricks rear up amid the sugar-cane plantations.