A BAHIA

Bahia (capital Salvador), it is the Brazilian State with larger coast area, possessing famous and beautiful beaches as the one of Cocoa Coast. It is also the Brazilian State with larger relative number of blacks and mulattos and what possesses larger influence of the African culture: the music, cookery, religion and the way of life of the population present the African slaves' great contribution.

Bahia is one of the most frequent references in the Brazilian popular music. That is the mystic earth where the people don't get tired of celebrating the life and the nature contains the hurry. But it doesn't only believe in the poets and composers. Disembark in Bahia and check independently. Come prepared: It is treated of an experience for the five senses!

For who that Afro-descending nation that is in Brazil arrives, the largest country of South America - its has forms invariably hot. The food boils in the gold oil of palm oil and it burns in the pepper. The sun illuminates Bahia, where mulatto people that walks lives as if you/he/she was dancing and speech almost singing.

Bahia, where it began the history of Brazil, from 1500 when the Portuguese admiral's squad Pedro Álvares Cabral docked in the South of Bahia - it possesses a rich culture, mixing existences of the European white with the indigenous redskin's wild purity and, soon afterwards, with the brought black from Africa.

Bahia is a destiny for a thousand adventures and a lot of pleasure. The State has an accentuated and natural vocation for the ecoturismo, activity practiced in all of the destinies of the areas tourist baianos.

Bahia is a scenery of 567.295 nature km2 with 1.181 km of coast, the tropical climate is predominant. In the coast and in the area of Ilhéus, the humidity is larger and the indexes of rains can cross the 1.500 annual mm. Of the total surface of the State, 24.056 km2 represent Units of Conservation (APAs, parks, reservations, ecological stations, RPPNs - Reservations Peculiar of Natural and other Patrimony) or Areas Legally Protected, corresponding to 4,3% of the territory from Bahia.

Well Coming to Bahia! Here the beaches are beautiful, the culture is extremely rich, the hospitable people, there are a lot of happiness and parties.

Well Coming to Cocoa Coast! The More Beautiful Coast from Brazil!

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