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Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions), by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, which are formed by the federative units of Brazil.
Vale São-Franciscano da Bahia Barra Barra: Buritirama: Ibotirama: Itaguaçu da Bahia: Morpará: Muquém de São Francisco: Xique-Xique: Bom Jesus da Lapa Bom Jesus da Lapa: Carinhanha: Feira da Mata: Paratinga: Serra do Ramalho: Sítio do Mato: Juazeiro Campo Alegre de Lourdes: Casa Nova: Curaçá: Juazeiro: Pilão Arcado: Remanso: Sento Sé ...
Porto Seguro (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpoʁtu siˈɡuɾu], Safe Harbor in English), is a city located in the far south of Bahia, Brazil.The city has an estimated population of 150,658 (2020), covers 2,287 square kilometres (883 sq mi), and has a population density of 52.7 residents per square kilometer.
Trancoso is a district in the municipality of Porto Seguro in the state of Bahia, Brazil.Once a small fishing village, the town is now known for its beaches and has increased in popularity since gaining international attention around 2000 while retaining an eco-friendly appeal.
The Bay of All Saints (Portuguese: Baía de Todos os Santos), also known as All Saints' Bay and Todos os Santos Bay, is the principal bay of the Brazilian state of Bahia, [2] [1] to which it gave its name. [2] [1] It sits on the eastern coast of Brazil, surrounding part of Bahia's capital Salvador and opening to the Atlantic Ocean. It covers ...
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.
Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park Serra dos Pirineus in Goiás. Goiás occupies a large plateau, the vast almost level surface of which stands between 750 and 900 m above sea level and forms the divide between three of Brazil's largest river systems: to the south, Goiás is drained by the Paranaíba river, a tributary of the Paraná River; to the east it is drained by tributaries of the São ...
In 1928 the second hydroelectric station in Bahia was built in Barreiras. Industries began to come to the region. The city that had been practically stagnant for decades now had packing houses, rice and cotton mills, textile factories, and tanning factories. In 1943 a branch of Banco do Brasil opened its doors, the first bank in the city.