The History of Guaratuba

The History of Guaratuba                                                                                                 

            Guaratuba began to take shape when the King of Portugal, Dom Jose I, worried about possible foreign raids of the Brazilian coast, so he commanded that villages and towns to be established in more suitable locations to the projecting or dispersed small farms where the conditions were favourable.                                                                                

                                                   

    It was decided that a town should be founded between the villages of Paranaguá and of the River São  Francisco. On the 5th of December 1765, Dom Luis sent a group of settlers to begin building the town. This comprised 200 couples, who would cultivate discovered lands.                                                                                                                                                                               In 13 of May 1768, Dom Luis granted the royal charter requested by the founder of the new town which consisted of the creation and maintenance of a church. Dom Luis, on the 23rd of January of 1770, commanded his assistant lieutenant-colonel Alfonso Botelho de Sampaio e Sousa, who erected in village the small farm called Guaratuba, where there were already houses and other buildings.                                                                                                                                                           

 After some expeditions, on 27 April 1771, Dom Luis returned to Guaratuba. On the 28th day of that month, the Church was blessed and on the 29th the village of São Luís de Guaratuba was formally named.                   

  

Its first elected mayor took office in 1792, thus continuing up to the 20th of October 1838, when by the Act no. 7572, the city ceased to exist in its former status and was constituted as the municipality of Paranaguá. It was not until 10 October 1847, by the Act no. 02 of that year, that the city recovered its independence, being reinstalled on 25 of October of the same year. In this new phase, the first mayor was Mr. Berilo da Cunha Padilha. In 1954, the city of Guaratuba became part of the Jurisdiction of Sao Jose dos Pinhais.

 Finally on July 1986 Guaratuba obtained municipal independence

The Economy

Agriculture, fishing, and tourism constitutes the basic economic activities of the city. Guaratuba has fertile lands where maize, sugar cane, rice, oranges, ginger and bananas, and many other products are of great economic importance. The cattle is distinguished with a considerable herd of buffales. Fishing also has great prominence in the economy of city, being one of its main sources of wealth, being made in an artisan way. Even with its fishing being done in anartisan way, technology is already present in 80% of this activity operating with a fishing industry. Two industries of palmito still exist in Guaratuba they are brands in Brazil and the exterior. The tourism also constitutes excellent source of profit for the city. Tourists from many different places in Brazil and the world visit annually its 22 km of beaches.

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