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Seven marine Islands, among them Atalaia Island, the most important, and several fluvial, seventeen kilometers of beaches, plantations of coconuts, reservation of Atlantic forest and growth of mangroves areas with rare wild fauna, form the scenic beauty of Canavieiras, city where stands out the old houses, as the church of São Boaventura, 1718, and the headquarters of the city hall, of 1879. City where stands out the old constructions, as the Mother church of São Boaventura, 1718, and the city hall, of 1879.
Canavieiras has an exciting landscape, combining reservations of Atlantic forest, growth of mangroves, cashew trees and hoses. The main source of income of the municipal district is the cocoa farming, and coconut plantations, the piaçava, the wood, the livestock and the palm oil. The city also stands out as the fishing largest of the robalo and marlin of Brazil, what attracts for the place sportsmen followers of the fishing.
Canavieiras is placed to 100 km of Ilhéus. The city has preserved the architecture of the century XVIII and XIX that it guarantees her a charm the more and it preserves the identity and the history of this city, with wide and plane streets and arboreous stonemasons, that she offers a romantic and bucolic scenery. Who arrives the Canavieiras can ride the bicycle, to penetrate in the forest that leads to centennial farms where the first feet of cocoa of Bahia were planted, to take sea bath or river, or still to take a medicinal mud bath.
The city is also known by her fishing potential, mainly for the existence of fish as the robalo and the tucunaré, and the particularity of being one of the few points of the favorable continent to the sea fishing of the blue marlim, basing an annual tournament of this fishing style besides.In the Island of the Herons, a true ecological shrine, herons and seagulls come out in flight in search of foods in the growth of mangroves of the Pardo river, in a choreography free and beauty. Those growth of mangroves, object of interest for the preservation of the life and scientific researches, they collect 9 thousand hectares of the territory of the municipal district. Such extension favors the economical aspect, once it provides a rich and varied gastronomy.
The beaches of Canavieiras invite, with their shallow waters, calms and lukewarm, the a moment of watered rest the coconut water, crab and fruits of the sea. They are, without a doubt, the ideal places for who it likes peace and peacefulness. The people of that earth have color of the sun and sea smell, it is cheerful and hospitable and it is faithful to the religious traditions, and other commemorations, always having a new festivity in the calendar along the year. The exuberance of the nature is a gift to the visitors, that always want to be a little more taking advantage the shelter of the hotels and lodgings, and delighting with the aromas and flavors of the restaurants with their surprising and varied menus.
(Source: Association Lives Canavieiras)
