The municipality contains the 385 hectares (950 acres) São Camilo State Park, a conservation unit originally created as a biological reserve in 1990.

Pinho e Terras approach to colonization was called exemplary,[2] but in the early 1960s the colonists were besieged by gunmen hired by the "new landowners" affiliated with state governor and Socialist Democratic Party boss Moises Lupion.

[4] The federal government moved in a regiment of border guards to pacify the area and in 1963 re-nationalized the disputed lands.

[2] The name of the municipality comes from Saint Vincent Pallotti, because some priests, who were members of the Society of Catholic Apostolate (SAC), were present during the colonization period.

[6] The only parish in the municipality, which is made up only of Pallottine priests, is also named after the Saint: in portuguese, Paróquia São Vicente Pallotti.