[2][3][4][5] In the late nineteenth century, the banks of the Rio Piranhas lived in the region known as a gentleman "Catonho" with his family and some residents of his farm known as Rattlesnake.

Shortly after, he spent a priest by the name unknown to the city of Pombal (Paraíba), which would celebrate the Feast of the Rosary, which would have christened the place of São Bento, because almost being bitten by a snake, remaining to this day.

Catonho dying, his son, and his cousin Manuel Vieira Leandro Pinto, neighboring properties, started development work with the aim of increasing the core, grouping residents and growing number of inhabitants.

Finally on April 29, 1959, after several popular events and common sense, was its political emancipation through Act 2073, authored by state Rep Tertullian de Brito, published in the Official Gazette in Paraíba.

Founded on the banks of the Rio Piranhas, the city developed a great potential in the hammocks being the largest domestic producer of the industry branch.