Caravelas
Municipality in Bahia, Brazil
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Caravelas is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants in southern Bahia, Brazil, a few miles above the mouth of the Caravelas River.
Caravelas was founded in 1581 by Portuguese settlers. It was once the centre of a flourishing whale fishery. It is the port of the Bahia & Minas railway pt.[2] Caravelas is the nearest town to the uninhabited Abrolhos Archipelago.[3] The city contains part of the Cassurubá Extractive Reserve, a 100,768 hectares (249,000 acres) sustainable use conservation unit that protects an area of mangroves, river and sea where shellfish are harvested.[4]
The city is served by Caravelas Airport.
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References
- ^ IBGE 2020
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caravellas". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 303.
- ^ O Arquipélago dos Abrolhos Archived 2011-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ RESEX do Cassurubá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Ambiental, retrieved 2016-06-22
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Capital: Salvador
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