Paripiranga has adjacent municipalities in the State of Bahia, which are: Poço Verde, Tobias Barreto, Riachão do Dantas, Lagarto, Macambira, Pedra Mole and Pinhão territory in Sergipe.

Simão Dias is built on a village of indigenous (remnants of Tapuias [pt]) fugitives who had fled the north, where Governor Luís de Brito e Almeida was carrying out colonizing expeditions in the sixteenth century.

The zones between land and Paripiranga Simão Dias, municipality of Bahia, are formed by rough terrain, where you can check for closed forests, due to the impossibility of cereal crops and pastures.

Simão Dias passed the village category for the City on June 12, 1890, by decree of the President of the State Felisbelo Freire, arguing that it had a large population - 10,984 people, a successful business, a railroad Vila said that connected to Arcanu, as well as the existence of a newly created district.

The railroad, which served as one of the arguments for the political emancipation of the old village, was never completed, leaving today remaining in abandoned farms only excavations and foundations of bridges where the lines were planned.

However the thesis sustained by historian Felisbelo Freire was the target of opposition by Fr John Matos Carvalho, who had intended to credit the H butonorable Sebastião da Fonseca Andrade (Baron de Santa Rosa) for the construction of the temple of the current array of Santana.

Father Joao de Matos took advantage of the contradictions found in various theories about the origin of the village, because the historical documents that spoke of Simão Dias, in letters of donation land grants, surnames have diversified beyond requesting allotments in different periods.

Due to the progress of the government of the Province Parish fell on March 15, 1850, the decree amounted to a town by the name of Lady Anne Simão Dias.

The region's main sources of revenue farming (cassava, maize, beans, orange and passion fruit), livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs and horses), poultry (chickens, ostrich) and mining (extraction of carbonate rock, for transformation into lime and gravel) implemented by Cal manufactures Industrial LTD located in Clover Village Tight Stones in the northeast of the city.