Simão Dias is a Brazilian municipality located in the far west of the Brazilian state of Sergipe. Its population was 40,606 (2020) and it has an area of 560km2. It was founded in 1890. Paripiranga has adjacent municipalities in the State of Bahia, which are: Poço Verde, Tobias Barreto, Riachão do Dantas, Lagarto, Macambira, Pedra Mole and Pinhão territory in Sergipe. History Origin Simão Dias is built on a village of indigenous (remnants of ) fugitives who had fled the north, where Governor Luís de Brito e Almeida was carrying out colonizing expeditions in the sixteenth century. These indigenous peoples settled in the woods on the river . The lands of the county are rugged due to the presence of a range of mountains, with altitudes ranging from 200 to 750 meters. This favours the existence of a vegetation less vulnerable to droughts than typical backcountry. The zones between land and Paripiranga Simão Dias, municipality of Bahia, are formed by rough terrain, where you can check for closed forests, due to the impossibility of cereal crops and pastures. In this same area, there are numerous sites that grow fruit trees and food crops. This provided relief to the Indigeans who first inhabited this region a true oasis, opposite the backcountry. Hence the origin of several designations contained in historical documents, such as "Simão Dias's Woods," Matas Coité or the "Matas of Caiçá." With the Dutch invasion of Sergipe in the mid-seventeenth century, farmers wanted to hide their flocks on the banks of the Rio Real. However Braz Rabelo, owner of Bahia, who owned herds in the lands of present Itabaiana, decided to hide his cattle in the forest land by the River Caiçá. Emerging from this episode is that the historical figure of the cowboy Simão Dias, responsible for driving the cattle and the appearance of the village that would become a city. Simão Dias was also the birthplace of great latinfundiários and planters bringing Mr. Martin Ferreira Matos, then one of the largest planters in the interior of Sergipe. Simão Dias passed the village category for the City on June 12, 1890, by decree of the President of the State Felisbelo Freire, arguing that it had a large population - 10,984 people, a successful business, a railroad Vila said that connected to Arcanu, as well as the existence of a newly created district. Based on these arguments the village