Irará

The land was annexed by the Portuguese in the 16th century, and became part of the vast land holdings of Garcia d'Ávila (1528-1609) in the Captaincy of Bahia. The Jesuits explored the area from the north via their settlement in present-day Água Fria. Bandeirantes entered the city to both hunt for precious stones in the Serra de Irará and to enslave indigenous people. Two structures remain from the bandeirantes, a church in the Vila de Bento Simões and a chapel in Caroba. In mid-1717, the first explorations of the lands in the center of the current municipality were registered, where Antônio Homem da Fonseca Correia was an early permanent Portuguese settler to the area. He built a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Conception in 1717, and left the land to his son. The farmhouse of the family gave rise to the village of Irará, which was also a site of a Paiaiá settlement.

• Official Name — Irará • Type — Municipality • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Brazil • Subdivision Type1 — Region • Subdivision Name1 — Northeast • Subdivision Type2 — State • Subdivision Name2 — Bahia • Subdivision Type3 — Mesoregion • Subdivision Name3 — Centro-Norte Baiano • Subdivision Type4 — Microregion • Subdivision Name4 — Feira de Santana • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Juscelino Souza • Established Title — Founded • Established Date — May 27th, 1842 • Established Title1 — Incorporated (municipality) • Established Date1 — August 8th, 1895 • Unit Pref — metric • Area Total Km2 — 267.88 • Population As Of — 2020 • Population Total — 29,173 • Time Zone — BRT • Utc Offset — −3 • Elevation M — 283 • Postal Code Type — CEP postal code • Postal Code — 44255-000 • Area Code Type — Area code • Area Code — 75 • Custom Label Sec1 — HDI (2010) • Custom Data Sec1 — 0,620 • Website — irara.ba.gov.br