Valença
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Key facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Northeast
- State
- Bahia
- Established
- 10 November 1849
- Total
- 97,873
- Time zone
- UTC−3 ( BRT )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Brazil
- Demonym
- valenciano
- Country
- Brazil
- Located in
- Bahia
- Population
- 66931
- Area
- 1192.614
- Elevation
- 148
- Shares border with
- Taperoá
- Official website
- valenca.ba.gov.br
- Image
- Cameravalenca.jpg
- Dialing code
- 75
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- Commons category
- Valença (Bahia)
- Human Development Index
- 0.623
- inception
- 1849-01-01
- electorate
- 63275
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Valença is a Brazilian city in the state of Bahia and has an estimated population of 97,233. It is visited by tourists because it is the main access to the island of Ilha de Tinharé, famous for the town of Morro de São Paulo.
The municipality contains part of the 230,296-hectare (569,070-acre) Caminhos Ecológicos da Boa Esperança Environmental Protection Area, created in 2003.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Valença” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.