Caravelas
Municipality
Flag of Caravelas
Coat of arms of Caravelas
Location in Bahia
Location in Bahia
Caravelas is located in Brazil
Caravelas
Caravelas
Location of Caravelas in Brazil
Coordinates: 17°43′55″S 39°15′58″W / 17.732°S 39.266°W / -17.732; -39.266
Country Brazil
State Bahia
Area
  Total2,377.889 km2 (918.108 sq mi)
Elevation
10 m (30 ft)
Population
 (2020[1])
  Total22,093
  Density9.3/km2 (24/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

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.

See also

References

  1. IBGE 2020
  2. 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.
  3. O Arquipélago dos Abrolhos Archived 2011-09-10 at the Wayback Machine
  4. RESEX do Cassurubá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Ambiental, retrieved 2016-06-22


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