Located 36 km from the city of Monte Santo, about 40 minutes on the BA-220 highway. This town has a direct connection with the episode in Canudos. During the war of Canudos, the Republican army set up camp in a city called Cumbe. Today, the city has been renamed after the famous journalist/writer who wrote about the saga of Antônio Conselheiro, in the classic "Os Sertões", and now it is quite different from that old farm Cumbe. Euclides da Cunha is a busy trade center and it is the second corn and beans producer of the state, not to mention the large plantation of manioc and large sheep herds.
Some spots of the city can still send you back to the time of the war of Canudos, like the house where Major Moreira César stayed, at Bandeira square, a tile panel at Duque de Caxias square, which portrays the war of Canudos and the collection of the poet and writer José Aras, which is housed in a room of the Oliveira Brito School. One can also see other relics there, like grenades used by the army, a Withworth 32 cannon ball, hand-made knives, coins of the time, pictures of survivors, swords, besides the cross used by Col. Tamarindo who, along with Moreira César, commanded the Third Expedition. Books - with "cordel" poems by José Aras that tell the story of this war that marked the region - are also part of the exhibit.
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