Caravelas (Bahia)
| Município de Caravelas Caravelas |
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 Catedral de Santo Antonio de Caravelas
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| Coordinates | 17 ° 44 ′ S , 39 ° 16 ′ W | ||
 Location of the municipality in the state of Bahia
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| founding | 1581 First settlement (439 years) April 23, 1855 City rights (165 years) |
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| Country | Brazil | ||
| State | Bahia | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | BR-BA | ||
| height | 10 m | ||
| Waters | Atlantic | ||
| climate | tropical | ||
| surface | 2,377.9 km² | ||
| Residents | 21,414 (2010) | ||
| density | 9 Ew. / km² | ||
| estimate | 22,016 (July 1, 2019) | ||
| Parish code | IBGE : 2906907 | ||
| Post Code | 45900-000 | ||
| Telephone code | (+55) 73 | ||
| Time zone | UTC −3 | ||
| Website | caravelas.ba (Brazilian Portuguese) | ||
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| City Prefect | Sílvio Ramalho da Silva (2017–2020) | ||
| Political party | MDB | ||
| economy | |||
| GDP | 322,126 thousand R $ 14,166 R $ per person (2017) |
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| HDI | 0.616 (medium) (2010) | ||
Caravelas , officially Portuguese Município de Caravelas , is a small town with an estimated 22,016 inhabitants (as of 2019) on the Atlantic coast in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia , a few kilometers north of the mouth of the Rio Caravelas . The community area is around 2378 km². The city is the starting point of the Estrada de Ferro Bahia e Minas (Bahia & Minas railway line).
geography
Surrounding places are Alcobaça , Teixeira de Freitas , Medeiros Neto , Lajedão , Ibirapuã and Nova Viçosa . The distance to the capital Salvador is 721 km.
The biome is Mata Atlântica , the climate tropical, Af according to the Köppen and Geiger climate classification . The annual average temperature is 24.3 ° C, the annual rainfall is around 1519 mm.
history
The place was founded in 1581 by Portuguese bandeirantes on the Rio Caravelas and has long been the center of an important whaling industry . The place was incorporated in 1700 as Vila de Santo Antônio do Rio das Caravelas and received city rights in 1855. On May 11, 1823, during the Brazilian War of Independence, a battle between Portuguese and Brazilian naval units took place near Caravelas.
About 70 kilometers east of Caravelas in the South Atlantic is the 280 km² marine national park Abrolhos, established in April 1983, with its five small islands of volcanic origin.
Web links
- City Prefecture website , Prefeitura Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- City Council website , Câmara Municipal (Brazilian Portuguese)
- IBGE : Cidades @ Bahia: Caravelas. (Brazilian Portuguese, updated statistics).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Caravelas - Panorama. IBGE , accessed July 19, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ^ EF Bahia-Minas - Estações Ferroviárias de Minas Gerais. In: com.br. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Climate Caravelas: Climate table, weather & water temperature for Caravelas. In: de.climate-data.org. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Caravelas - História. IBGE , accessed July 19, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).