Caravelas
Sign in to saveCaravelas is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants in southern Bahia, Brazil, a few miles above the mouth of the Caravelas River.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Caravelas
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira_de_Caravelas_-_BA.svg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Brasão_de_Caravelas_-_BA.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Bahia Municip Caravelas.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Bahia
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Brazil
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Caravelas in Brazil
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2377.889
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 10
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020
- Settlement.population_total
- 22,093
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone1
- BRT
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- −3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- caravelense
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Bahia
- Population
- 19763
- Area
- 2396.608
- Elevation
- 30
- Shares border with
- Alcobaça
- Image
- Co-Catedral Santo Antônio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 73
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- Commons category
- Caravelas (Bahia)
- Human Development Index
- 0.616
- inception
- 1503-01-01
- electorate
- 14035
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
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- See also
- References
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. Caravelas is the nearest town to the uninhabited Abrolhos Archipelago. The city contains part of the Cassurubá Extractive Reserve, a sustainable use conservation unit that protects an area of mangroves, river and sea where shellfish are harvested.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Caravelas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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