Cumuruxatiba, before 1940, was a village of Indians Pataxós who lived in a quiet, considered by whites, the majority were foreigners who went there as quiet and good people in entato did not have incentives to work. This vision is given the fact that they did not understand, and not covering tie today, that these Indians withdrew only what was necessary to their survival, thus managed to preserve the place where they lived.

From 1940 a town of Cumuruxatiba was formed by a nucleus of wooden houses next to the Matrix, the central street, and another near the dam, a reservoir of water to wash the sand made monazítica that was exploited, where the Indians lived Pataxós in houses from Taipei. Unless the Indians had some families such as: Noble, Rodrigues, Souza, Rosa and Batista, many of which remain here, even after generations of Dante. These families living from fishing, hunting, subsistence agriculture, exploitation of timber and sand monazítica, and means of transport most used by these were the horse and canoe. Because markets had not the people he traveled on foot to the Prado, where he bought what did not produce, such as medicines and some food.

From that moment on the small village is only growing, memo thus maintains the quiet of a tiny village. In 1982 it took the arrival of electric light, previously was used by the diesel engine to the company that operated the sand monazítica.

Today Cumuru has about 5000 residents, the fishing, construction and tourism, that the excellent beaches and rivers that this small town offers its visitors, the main sources of income.

This is the story of my small town - Manoela Almeida dos Santos