[3] In 1961, a Pataxó speaker named Tšitši'a was recorded by Wilbur Pickering in Posto Caramurú (located 3 kilometers from Itaju, Bahia).
Pataxó people were also reported to be living in Itagüira, Itabuna, Bahia.
[4] The last speaker of Hãhãhãe in the Paraguaçu outpost, Bahetá, A 100-word primer of Pataxó exists, which is of great symbolic value to the community.
[5][6] Pataxó as documented by Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied during the early 1800s[7] is distinct from Pataxó-Hãhãhãe.
It was historically spoken from the Mucuri River to Porto Seguro in southern Bahia from at least the 17th century.