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The Bahia Sebastian Vizcaino, the largest bay in Baja, lies along the Pacific coast halfway up the peninsula.
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Bahia and Sebastian
However Ogum may also be represented by Saint Sebastian, as it is often done in the northeast of the country, for example in the state of Bahia.
Bahia and largest
The largest bays along the coastline of the Gulf are Bahia de La Paz where the city of La Paz is located, and Bahia Concepcion.
Despite playing in the Third Division of Brazilian football in 2007, Bahia had the largest average attendance in Brazil: 40, 400 people per match.
Bahia is the sixth largest economy in the country.
Another scenic attraction is the Cachoeira da Fumaça ( Waterfall ), that falls, the Gruta dos Brejões, the largest cavern opening of Bahia, and the amazing Poço Encantado, which fascinates visitors to the region.
During Ramadan, in January 1835, a small group of black slaves and freedmen from Salvador da Bahia, inspired by Muslim teachers, rose up against the government in the Malê Revolt, the largest slave rebellion in Brazil.
The largest continuous area of forest in its known range, the Una Biological Reserve in Bahia, is estimated to contain a population of 185 individuals.
Teixeira de Freitas is a city in the extreme south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, on the edge of highway BR-101, and is one of the largest cities in that state with a population estimated at 118, 681 inhabitants.
Novo Hamburgo is the largest commercial area of Sinos River Valley, with more than 5, 500 outlets, including major Brazilian chain stores such as Magazine Luiza, Lojas Renner, C & A, Lojas Americanas, Casas Bahia, Ponto Frio, Lojas Colombo and Delta Sul.
Today, Feira de Santana is the second largest City in Bahia.
In 1991, four hundred years after the invasion of Bahia, he publish his largest fictional work, 1591, A Santa Inquisicao na Bahia e Outras Estorias and Oliveira Dos Campinhos: Passado e Presente de um Arraial do Reconcavo.
Braskem controls the two largest petrochemical complexes in Brazil, located in the cities of Camaçari ( Bahia ) and Triunfo ( Rio Grande do Sul ).
Over the years people from across Bahia, including landless farmers, former slaves and indigenous people, flocked to join him, and within a few years the fledgling settlement numbered 30, 000 people ( which made it the second largest urban center in Bahia behind Salvador ) and had developed a leather exporting business.
Bahia and bay
The bay in which the harbour is located is called Bahia de Amatique.
* Bahia Adair, a bay in the municipality of San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora
Baía de Todos os Santos ( All Saints ' Bay ) is the main and biggest bay of the state of Bahia, Brazil.
The bay was known as Bahia de la Escondida ( Bay of the Hidden Woman ) due to a legend associated with this place.
The area was once heavily targeted by sea pirates, and Bahia Naranjo near what is now the town of Guardalavaca is a secluded shallow bay connected to the open sea by a narrow inlet, which made it a proper safe haven to guard ships against pirates.
Bahia and Baja
In July 1992, two killer whales attacked, killed and fed on an long whale shark, Rhincodon typus, in the waters off Bahia de los Angeles in Baja California.
( Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Bahia del Ropsario, Baja California and California-America )
Physical evidence of the species was first described in 1991 from a skeleton and a rotting carcass found in Bahia de La Paz, Baja California in 1990.
Bahia and lies
It is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and to the south by San Juan Bay or " Bahia de San Juan " which lies between the city and the mainland.
Bahia and along
This defeat, along with the defeats at Bahia and Puerto Rico caused a 5 year long lull in Dutch attacks on Spanish and Portuguese colonies.
* March 27 – 342 Texan prisoners are shot and killed in the Goliad Massacre along with Texan General James Walker Fannin by Mexican troops in Goliad near the Presidio La Bahia during the Texas Revolution.
In his final report, Escandónt recommended that Presidio La Bahia be moved from its Guadalupe River location to the banks of the San Antonio River, so that it could better assist settlements along the Rio Grande.
The Lambada spread along the coast until it reached Bahia ( the elder Brazilian state ) where it was influenced by the Forró, an old Brazilian style of dance which also had a strong beat.
An outdoors, natural museum, whose “ art galleries ” are its beaches, valleys and natural trails and whose “ collection ” is a set of geographical formations and traditional villages, disposed as art works in permanent exhibition, engraved in very ancient media, which are spread along the 130 km length of Bahia ’ s historical southern coastline.
However, it is somewhat selective about which flowers to visit, preferring the flora that occurs in their natural environment, and thus is difficult to be kept outside its region of origin, which is along the east coast of Brazil, from the state of Bahia to the south.
Other enclaves are north and south of the city of Salvador and near the mouth of the Jequitinhonha River in Bahia state ; north and south of the mouth of the Rio Paraíba do Sul in Rio de Janeiro state ; and along the coast of southern Santa Catarina state and Rio Grande do Sul state, as far as the Uruguayan border.
Bahia and Pacific
The Bahia culture occupied the area that stretches from the foothills of the Andes to the Pacific Ocean, and from Bahía de Caráquez, to the south of Manabi.
; La Chorera: Pacific beach directly west of town, northwest of Bahia Falsa.
Bahia and coast
Among the main towns of this period were the cultures: Jambelí, Guangala, Bahia, Tejar-Daule, La Tolita, Jama Coaque in the coast of Ecuador, in the sierras the Cerro Narrío Alausí ; and in the Ecuadorian Amazon jungle the Tayos.
The Seven Provinces ( the Dutch ) captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including the entire coasts except that of Bahia and much of the interior of most contemporary Northeastern states ( Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará ), while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Coming back down the coast, Cabrillo entered Monterey Bay, naming it " Bahia de los Pinos ".
On 15 November, the squadron moved to Bahia San Quintin on the Chilean coast, where a ceremony was held to distribute 300 Iron Crosses second class, amongst the crew, and an Iron Cross first class to Admiral Spee.
Bahia () is one of the 26 states of Brazil, and is located in the northeastern part of the country on the Atlantic coast.
The Portuguese Pedro Álvares Cabral landed at what is now Porto Seguro City, on the southern coast of Bahia in 1500, and claimed the territory for Portugal.
Along the southern coast of Bahia, the Cacao Coast preserves ecological sanctuaries with dozens of kilometers of beaches shaded by dense coconut groves, the Atlantic Forest, large areas of wetland vegetation and cacao plantations, the great allies in the struggle to defend the preservation of the Atlantic Forest.
The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including the provinces of Bahia, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
The history of the Irmandade da Boa Morte (" Sisterhood of the Good Death "), a religious confraternity devoted to the Assumption of the Virgin, is part of the history of mass importation of blacks from the African coast to the cane-growing catchment area around the port of Salvador, Bahia, known as the Recôncavo Baiano.
Along a roughly 500-mile portion of Brazil's Atlantic coast that runs from north of Rio de Janeiro up to the region south of Bahia, the sands of old beaches are naturally radioactive.
Playa Girón ( Girón beach ) is a beach on the east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos in the modern Matanzas Province, on the southern coast of Cuba.
He departed for the Portuguese colony of Brazil in 1509, and his ship wrecked in the coast of Bahia, Diogo Álvares found himself among the Tupinambá Indians.
In 1501, one year after the arrival of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet in Porto Seguro, Gaspar de Lemos arrived at Todos os Santos Bay and sailed most of the Bahia coast.
The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia ( and its capital Salvador ), Pernambuco ( and its capital Recife ), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
Bahia on the north east coast of Brazil was captured in 1624 but only held for a year before it was recaptured by a joint Spanish-Portuguese expedition.
It originally lived on the Northeastern coast of Brazil, in the states of Piaui, Paraiba, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco, Alagoas and Bahia.
Mimosa hostilis ( Jurema, Tepezcohuite ) is a perennial evergreen tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil ( Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia ) and found as far north as southern Mexico ( Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas ).
The traditional clothing of Bahia consists of torso, coat, cloth and skirt round the coast.
As part of this mission, Sousa had established his capital city of Salvador at Bahia on the Atlantic coast between São Paulo and Pernambuco.
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