Because of the dangers of traveling at night, it was more prudent to stay overnight in the ranch and continue the following day's trip.

The geographical location of the ranch was a contributory factor for it to evolve into a village, since it was an exact half day trip from Gandu and a day coming from Santarém, besides having an ideal infrastructure for the tropeiros, that is, water and grass fed.

There are some controversies about who was the first inhabitant, but some credit the pioneering to Manoel Romualdo Santana, who would have built the first permanent housing in the city.

At that time, that street was no longer a mere ranchery to become a small warehouse of goods, since João Soares worked in the dry and wet tissue business, buying and selling products from the region, thus inferring that other people would come that ruined one, besides the tropeiros originating of the cities of the coast.

The priests soon erected a chapel for the catechesis of the Indians who passed by, coming from the area where today is the city of Ibirapitanga, the former Cachoeira do Pau, and the tropeiros, each time in greater numbers.