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19 unusual facts about Bahia


Anthony Leeds

Field work in Bahia, Brazil, led to his dissertation “Economic Cycles in Brazil: The Persistence of a Total-Culture Pattern: Cacao and Other Cases”.

Bahia-class cruiser

On 4 July 1945, Bahia was acting as a plane guard for transport aircraft flying from the Atlantic to Pacific theaters of war.

Candomblé Jejé

The various ethnic groups as Fon, Ewe, Fante, Ashanti, mine to come in Brazil, were called "djedje", deployed here in your worship Salvador, Cachoeira and São Félix in Bahia, and São Luís of Maranhão, then spread itself to several Brazilian states.

Carlos Adriano Sousa Cruz

Carlos Adriano de Souza Cruz, or simply, Adriano (born on 28 September 1987 in Valença) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Bahia.

Chaves Municipality, Portugal

João Gonçalves da Costa (c. 1720 – Manuel Vitorino, Bahia; c. 1820) - was an explorer and conquistador, who, at 16 years of age went to Brazil, in the service of King John V, conquering lands in the Sertão da Resaca, fighting local native tribes, and founding the village of Vitória da Conquista, in the state of Bahia;

Demetrin Veal

Demetrin Leandro Veal (born August 11, 1981 in Salvador, Bahia) is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent.

Espinhaço Mountains

The range runs roughly north and south through the states of Minas Gerais and Bahia, extending for approximately 1000km.

Felipe de Oliveira Silva

In 2010 he was loaned to the athlete to compete in Bahia Series B.

Filipe Augusto

Filipe Augusto Carvalho Souza (born 12 August 1993 in Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Portuguese top side Rio Ave.

Huỳnh Kesley Alves

Huỳnh Kesley Alves or Kesley Alves (born 23 December 1981, in Palmeiras, Brazil) is a Vietnamese - Brazilian football striker who plays for Vietnamese club Becamex Bình Dương.

Jean Narde

Jean Ferreira Narde commonly known as Jean (born November 18, 1979 in Feira de Santana, Bahia) is a Brazilian footballer who last played for China League One side Guangdong Sunray Cave.

Marcos Antônio da Silva Gonçalves

Marcos Antônio da Silva Gonçalves, mostly known as Marquinhos (born 17 October 1989 in Prado, Bahia) is a Brazilian football player.

Marcos Pimentel

In red-black Bahia, ended up being much criticized, and upon receiving a proposal from Ceará, was released by the club.

Pepeu Gomes

Pedro Anibal de Oliveira Gomes, better known as Pepeu Gomes (born on February 7, 1952 in Salvador, Bahia state) is an accomplished Brazilian guitar player and composer.

Philcoxia bahiensis

It was first discovered collected by a local resident, Wilson Ganev, in August 1992 from the Serra do Atalho in the Piatã municipality.

Sergio

Sergio (carbonado), a 3167 carat carbonado found in Bahia (Brazil) in 1895, the largest carbonado diamond and the largest rough diamond ever found

Thales de Azevedo State High School

Thales de Azevedo State High School (Portuguese: Colégio Estadual Thales de Azevedo) is a public high school located in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.

Walter Albuquerque Mello

Walter Albuquerque Mello (Salvador, Bahia"?title=Bahia">Bahia, Brazil, 5 November 1928) is a Brazilian archivist.

Xavier Briggs

He later received a BS in engineering from Stanford University, worked with the innovative planning firm of Moore Iacofano Goltsman in Berkeley, CA, and won a Rotary Scholarship to study education and community development in Brazil, living in Salvador, Bahia.


Agnelo Queiroz

Agnelo dos Santos Queiroz Filho (born November 9, 1958 Itapetinga, Bahia) is a Brazilian politician and member of the Workers' Party (PT) since 2008.

Aguadulce, Coclé

It is the capital of Aguadulce District and it is located on the Pan-American Highway, near but not on the coast on the Bahia de Parita.

Alagoinhas Atlético Clube

Alagoinhas Atlético Clube, also known as Atlético de Alagoinhas or Atlético-BA, are a Brazilian football team from Alagoinhas, Bahia.

Associação Desportiva Bahia de Feira

Associação Desportiva Bahia de Feira, commonly known as Bahia de Feira, is a Brazilian football club based in Feira de Santana, Bahia state.

Aurora Miranda

In 1944, she appeared in the film Voce Ja Foi a Bahia? (The Three Caballeros), a mix of cinema and animation in which Aurora starred alongside Donald Duck.

Battle of 4 May

The Battle of 4 May was fought in open sea near Salvador, Bahia, on 4 May 1823, between the Brazilian Navy, under the command of a former admiral of the British Royal Navy, Thomas Cochrane, and the Portuguese Navy during the Brazilian War of Independence.

Brazz Dance Theater

Soledade is a native of Bahia, Brazil; in Music, Cuban-American composer Orlando Garcia created the original score to accompany the choreography; and Jacek Kolasinski the video artist from Poland contributed to the work through an installation at the performance site that echoes the strong transformation element present in the choreography.

Cangaia de Jegue

Cangaia de Jegue is a Brazilian band from Jequié, southwest Bahia, Brazil.

Catuense Futebol

Catuense Futebol, commonly known as Catuense, is a Brazilian football club based in Catu, Bahia state.

Charles Frederick Hartt

Hartt fell in love with Brazil, and spent 15 months exploring the coastal regions from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro.

Chica da Silva

She lived mainly in Arraial do Tijuco (nowadays known as Diamantina) and was the daughter of a Portuguese man, Antônio Caetano de Sá and his black enslaved lover, Maria da Costa, who was probably from the Gulf of Guinea or Bahia.

Esporte Clube Poções

Esporte Clube Poções, commonly known as Poções, is a Brazilian football club from Poções, Bahia state.

Ferrosur Roca

The branch from Bahia Blanca to Zapala serves the commercially important Rio Negro fruit-growing region.

Formosa Peak

The peak was first mapped in 1576 during a voyage by the Portuguese navigator and cartographer, Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo, when his ship put in at Plettenberg Bay, which he named 'Bahia Formosa' or 'beautiful bay'.

Franz Benque

With Alberto Henschel (1827-1882), a German from Berlin that migrated to Brazil in 1866, owner of the company Photographia Allemã (German Photography) with studios in Bahia and Pernambuco, Benque established the partnership Henschel & Benque Photographia Allemã that would become one of the most renowned Brazilian photography houses in that time.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Giraffas

In 2005 was opened the first store in the town of Barreiras, in Bahia.

Grapiúna Atlético Clube

Grapiúna Atlético Clube, commonly known as Grapiúna, is a Brazilian football club based in Itabuna, Bahia state.

Gustavo Dourado

Gustavo Dourado (born 1960, Ibititá, Bahia) is a Brazilian teacher, writer and poet.

High School Musical: O Desafio

It was filmed in Rio de Janeiro and Olodum, the cultural group from Bahia, was invited to bring its unique rhythm to a special choreography number.

Iberian Union

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.

Itabuna

Nowadays, Itabuna one of the most important tradepoints located along BR-101 Highway in Bahia.

Itamaraju

On 22 April 1500 a Portuguese fleet under the command of the explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral, seen by many as the first European to arrive in Brazil, recorded their sighting of Monte Pascoal which became a European settlement and, subsequently, the municipality of Prado.

Jiquilisco Bay

The discovery of hawksbill nesting in Bahia Jiquilisco and in Estero Padre Ramos (Nicaragua) changed the conservation outlook for this imperiled population and has provided renewed hope for recovery.

João Grande

Mestre João Grande eventually became such an acclaimed capoeirista that when Carybé, a painter famous for his documentation of African Culture in Bahia, chose to do studies of capoeira he chose João Grande as a model.

Johann Halbig

He created 18 colossal statues representing the leading German provinces for the Befreiungshalle at Kelheim; 60 busts for the Pinakothek (Munich); a statue of King Maximilian II for Lindau (1854); a monument of Count Platen at Ansbach (1858); the monument of Marshal Cachahiba d'Argolo in Bahía, Brazil; a statue of King Ludwig I of Bavaria for Kelheim.

Juazeiro Social Clube

Juazeiro Social Clube, usually known as Juazeiro is a Brazilian football club from Juazeiro, Bahia state.

Kamaka

Kamakã languages, a small family of extinct Macro-Jê languages of Bahía near Brazil's Atlantic coast

Leandro de Oliveira

Leandro Prates de Oliveira (born 2 February 1982 in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia) is a Brazilian track and field athlete who specialises in the 1500 metres.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial 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).

Miraí

The city territory is located in a region of easy access due to the presence of Rio-Bahia highway, also called BR-116.

Palmeiras Nordeste Futebol

Palmeiras Nordeste Futebol, commonly known as Palmeiras Nordeste, was a Brazilian football club based in Feira de Santana, Bahia state.

Phyllodactylus angustidigitus

This species is endemic from the Ica Region in southern Peru, and its known geographical distribution is restricted to the Paracas National Reservation, including two islands (La Vieja in the Bahia Independencia and Sangayan west of the Paracas Peninsula).

Raimundo Sodré

His holidays were spent with his father in Santo Amaro, Bahia (his father never did marry his mother), and he and his mother made frequent trips back to Ipirá as well.

Samuel Allport

Although occupied in business during the greater portion of his life, his leisure was given to geological studies, and when residing for a short period in Bahia, South America, he made observations on the geology, published by the Geological Society in 1860.

Simone Saback

Simone Saback (born 25 February 1956 in Jacobina, Bahia, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, singer, writer, poet and journalist.

Sociedade Desportiva Juazeirense

Sociedade Desportiva Juazeirense, commonly known as Juazeirense, is a Brazilian football club based in Juazeiro, Bahia state.

Sphinctomyrmex stali

Sphinctomyrmex stali is known from sparse localities along the southeastern portion of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, from Santa Catarina to southern Bahia.

Yellow-legged Tinamou

noctivagus, the nominate race, occurs in southeastern Brazil: Minas Gerais (Doce River area), southern Bahia, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.