Even after the colonization of Brazil, Portuguese families continued to migrate with the aim to continue exploring and developing areas that are still economically intact.

In 1855, the Portuguese Pedro de Cerqueira Lima acquired a large area and registered it as Fazenda Almada. Thus, the first generation of this farm was just beginning.

At that time, the population of the immense Brazil was much smaller and nature seemed endless.

Life was abundant around the cultivation of cocoa in the South of Bahia. The Bahian city was so prosperous that it became known as Ilhéus, Land of Cocoa.

In 1990s, the cocoa region was hit by a devastating fungus, which reduced harvests drastically, causing world market prices to plummet.

For a long time, cocoa farming was considered devastated. As the years went by, technology became more advanced. Farms began to learn how to control the virus and how to live with it.