Pancas

[1] East Pomeranian, a dialect of Low German, has co-official status in Pancas.

The landscape around the town is distinguished by large numbers of granite inselbergs, and Pedra Agulha ("Needle Rock") near the town is the second highest "chaminé" (high, vertical-sided granite rock) in Brazil - the highest being the famous Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro.

The first European settlers founded a village called São Silvano, but that was destroyed by the local Amerindians.

The first permanent residents arrived in 1918 looking for valuable minerals, but the region of the Doce River was practically uninhabited till 1925, it was then that the first bridge over the Doce River was built, called Florian Avidos Bridge, and this brought more people into the north of the state for the first time.

The first settlement in the area was founded in 1925, and was called Nossa Senhora Da Penha.