15 Facts About Sergipe

Sergipe, officially State of Sergipe, is a state of Brazil.

Present-day Sergipe was home to numerous indigenous peoples, including the Kaninde, Aratus, and Tupi peoples.

Sergipe remained a part of the state of Bahia, and was responsible for a third of Bahia's sugar production by 1723.

Areas unsuitable for sugarcane plantations on the coast and in the hinterland were developed for livestock; Sergipe subsequently became a supplier of draft animals for the farms of Bahia and Pernambuco.

Sergipe became a state under the proclamation of the Republic of Brazil in 1892.

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Sergipe became notorious for its outlaws in the 1930s, including Virgolino Ferreira da Silva, better known as Lampiao, the "King of Bandits", who terrorized the state for almost a decade until his beheading by the Brazilian police in 1938.

Sergipe's head was later displayed on a pole in a village square.

Coastal Sergipe was attacked by Nazi Germany at the beginning of World War II in response to the rupture of relations between Brazil and the Axis powers.

Sergipe's economy is focused around the production of sugarcane, coconut, orange and cassava .

Sergipe had in 2017 an industrial GDP of R$7 billion, equivalent to 0.

Lagarto Futebol Clube is another important club in Sergipe, it's from Lagarto, city where the Brazilian-born and Spanish-naturalized footballer Diego Costa was born.

Sergipe has an extensive coastline where it is very attractive for tourists from Brazil and the world.

Outside the capital, the coast of Sergipe is highly valued for its distinctive aspect: Praia do Saco, a beach located in the south of the state was considered one of the 100 best beaches in the world by the French magazine Les Voyageurs.

Stars on the flag of Sergipe represent the number of river estuaries in the state, and the green and yellow stripes represent Sergipe's union with the rest of Brazil.

In 1951, when the Sergipe legislature began to consider restoring the state flag, it decided to change the number of stars, so that there would be one for every municipality in the state.