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.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Caravelas is referenced by 452 other articles, and connects out to Brazil, time zone and geographic coordinate system.
The entry is geolocated on the map in BR, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including Municipalities in Bahia, Populated coastal places in Bahia and Populated places established in 1503.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
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
- Demonym
- caravelense
- Population
- 19763
- Area
- 2396.608
- Elevation
- 30
- 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
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Encyclopedic overview
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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.
On the map
2 mapped locations