Caravelas

Caravelas
Municipality
Flag Coat of arms
Location in Bahia
Caravelas Location of Caravelas in Brazil
Coordinates: 17°43′55″S39°15′58″W / 17.732°S 39.266°W / -17.732; -39.266
Country	Brazil
State	Bahia
Area
• Total	2,377.889 km2 (918.108 sq mi)
Elevation	10 m (30 ft)
Population  (2020 [1] )
• Total	22,093
• Density	9.3/km2 (24/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC−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. ^[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

• Abrolhos Marine National Park

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