Previously a sugarcane plantation, it was founded in 1886, in the municipality of Jaboatão (today Jaboatão dos Guararapes), by the Pernambuco State Government under the name of Progresso Colonial (Colonial Progress).

Founded in 1959, in the municipality of Vicência, its first proprietors were Benjamin O. da Costa Azevedo and João Pinto Lapa, and later Armando de Queiroz Monteiro.

Located in the municipality of Nazaré da Mata, it was founded in 1912 on the plantation of the same name by Serafim Velho Camello Pessoa de Albuquerque and his sons.

Situated in the municipality of Paudalho, on the banks of the Capibaribe River, it was founded in 1911 by Herculano Bandeira de Melo.

Located in the municipality of Goiana, it was founded in 1889 by Diniz Peryllo de Albuquerque Melo. It was previously a sugar plantation, founded before the Dutch invasion by Gaspar Pacheco. Confiscated, it was sold by the invaders in 1637 to Hans Wilen Louisen.