Tijuaçu Quilombola Community
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Tijuaçu is a quilombo remnant community, a traditional Brazilian population, located in the Brazilian municipalities of Senhor do Bonfim , Filadélfia and Antonio Gonçalves, in Bahia.[1][2] The Tijuaçu community consists of a population of 828 families, distributed over an area of 8472.2214 hectares. The territory was certified as a quilombo remnant (historical remnants of former quilombos) by the Palmares Cultural Foundation, by Ordinance No. 28/2005.[3][4][5][6][7]
This community had its Technical Identification and Delimitation Report published in 2010 (a stage of land regularization), but its land tenure situation is still under review (not titled) at INCRA.[8]
The community was founded at the beginning of the 19th century by Maria Rodrigues, known as “Mariinha”, of the Nagô nation. She escaped from a slave quarters in Salvador and settled in Alto Bonito. After marrying a man from Congo, they founded the quilombo on land formerly belonging to the Lagarto Farm, owned by Felipe Rodrigues da Silva and Joaquim Manoel de Santana.[8][9][10] According to testimonies, there were many lizards in the region, and that is why the community's name is Tijuaçu: it means “big lizard” in the language of the region's Indians.[6]