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The banana is among the most economically important crops for tropical and subtropical countries, where they have currently having great use in craft production, but it has been studied by many researchers to turn it into a high quality material for engineering. The extraction of the fibers of the banana pseudostem was done manually and without any chemical treatment. The fibers used in this study were drawn from the middle region of the pseudostem (trunk) of São-Tomé banana. They were characterized for their tensile strength, diameter, density and moisture content. The materials used for manufacture of polymeric composites were banana fibers, manually extracted from the pseudostem of São-Tomé banana (Musa sapientum, Musaceae), and an array of resin tereftálica unsaturated polyester and pre-accelerated chosen from the proportions of a 0.33% (v / v) 1.66% (v / v) 3.33% (v / v) and 5% (v / v) which was initially studied.