Caravelas

Caravelas is a fishing village of about 20,000 inhabitants in southern Bahia, Brazil, a few miles above the mouth of the Caravelas River.

It was founded in 1581 by Portuguese settlers. Caravelas 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.[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ O Arquipélago dos Abrolhos

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Caravellas". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

Coordinates: 17°43′55″S 39°15′57″W / 17.73194°S 39.26583°W / -17.73194; -39.26583

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