De Sousa had led an expedition to…

1534 CE

De Sousa had led an expedition to the region of present Bahia from Mount St Paul (Morro de São Paulo) in 1531 and, in 1534, Francisco Pereira Coutinho, the first captain of Bahia, establishes the settlement of Pereira in modern Salvador's Ladeira da Barra neighborhood.

Defensive structures made of loose rock and adobe are first put in place on the tip of the Santo Antônio peninsula.

The gneiss formation is known as Ponta do Padrão, for a marker (padrão) installed there in 1501 by order of the Portuguese king to signal occupation of the colony.

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