Cachoeira
Sign in to saveCachoeira (, Portuguese, meaning waterfall) is an inland municipality of Bahia, Brazil, on the Paraguaçu River. The town exports sugar, cotton, and tobacco and is a thriving commercial and industrial centre.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Cachoeira
- Settlement.official_name
- Municipality of Cachoeira
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_caption
- Cachoeira on the Paraguaçu River
- Settlement.image_flag
- Bandeira Cachoeira.jpg
- Settlement.image_seal
- Brasao cachoeira bahia.jpg
- Settlement.image_map
- Bahia Municip Cachoeira.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in Bahia
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Meso-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Metropolitana de Salvador
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Micro-Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Santo Antônio de Jesus
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1531
- Settlement.established_title1
- Settled
- Settlement.established_date1
- 13 March 1837
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- cachoeirano
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Bahia
- Population
- 28290
- Area
- 395.223
- Elevation
- 32
- Shares border with
- Saubara
- Official website
- cachoeira.ba.gov.br
- Image
- Cachoeira e Rio Paraguaçu.JPG
- Dialing code
- 75
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- Commons category
- Cachoeira, Bahia
- Human Development Index
- 0.647
- postal code
- 44300-000
- electorate
- 21915
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Population history
- Notable people
- Historic structures
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Cachoeira (, Portuguese, meaning waterfall) is an inland municipality of Bahia, Brazil, on the Paraguaçu River. The town exports sugar, cotton, and tobacco and is a thriving commercial and industrial centre.
The municipality contains 56% of the Baía do Iguape Marine Extractive Reserve, created in 2000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cachoeira” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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