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Bahía Blanca is the principal city in the Greater Bahía Blanca area. The city has an important seaport with a depth of 15 m (49 ft), kept constant upstream almost all along the length of the bay, where the Napostá Stream drains. Bahía Blanca means "White Bay". The name is due to the color of the salt covering the local soil surrounding the ...
Bahía Blanca means "White Bay". The name is due to the typical colour of the salt covering the soil surrounding the shores. The bay (which is actually an estuary) was seen by Ferdinand Magellan during his first circumnavigation of the world on the orders of Charles I of Spain, in 1520, looking for a canal connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of South America.
Google Street View Camera Car in Villa-Lobos State Park in São Paulo on January 7, 2010.. In South America, Google Street View is available in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Uruguay.
Bahia was the fourth largest producer of oranges in Brazil in 2018, with a total of 604 thousand tons, 3,6% of the national production. [62] Bahia is the second largest fruit producer in the country, with more than 3.3 million tons a year, behind São Paulo. The north of Bahia is one of the main fruit suppliers in the country.
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Bahia (BA), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Bahia is divided into 417 municipalities , which were, until 2017, grouped into 32 microregions , which were grouped into 7 mesoregions .
Chapada Diamantina region in Bahia. The nine states that make up the Northeast are Alagoas, Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe. [1] The Fernando de Noronha archipelago (formerly the federal territory of Fernando de Noronha, now part of Pernambuco state) is also included in the Northeast. [1]
Bahia has the longest coastline of the Brazilian states, and also the greatest number of coastal municipalities. Porto Seguro is regarded as the first place in which the explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral set foot. Maragogi, Alagoas. From Sergipe to Ceará, the landscape changes little, remaining relatively flat. Most of their islands are separated ...
The Partido de Bahía Blanca is a partido of the Buenos Aires Province is located at the south-west of the province in central Argentina at coordinates . The provincial subdivision holds a population of 284,776 inhabitants in an area of 2,300 km 2 (888 sq mi), and its capital city is Bahía Blanca, on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean.