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GUIA TUR%u00cdSTICO | TOURIST GUIDE78tuguese navigators Jo%u00e3o de Santar%u00e9m and Pedro Escobar first arrived. Some historians argue that the islands were inhabited by the ancestors of the angolares when the Portuguese arrived in 1471. In any case it is a component of the people of S%u00e3o Tome marking the country and its culture, especially in the region where the angolares are more concentrated that is called, in a significant way, S%u00e3o Jo%u00e3o dos Angolares.slaves from Angola who shipwrecked in Sete Pedras (Seven Stones), a set of rocks off the coast, as the vessel carrying them shattered in the early days of colonization and cultivation of cane of sugar, in the sixteenth century. The castaways settled at the first place they could set their foot on firm land.Not all researchers of the history of S%u00e3o Tome agree with this interpretation, which starts from the idea that the islands were uninhabited when the PorGUIA TUR%u00cdSTICO | TOURIST GUIDE