Atalaia island
Quiet beaches.
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Canavieiras is a coastal town in southern Bahia at the mouth of the Pardo River, south of Ilhéus, with more than forty kilometres of shore cut by rivers, mangroves and Atlantic forest, ringed by seven sea islands, the best known being Atalaia, and many river islands. Portuguese and Brazilian settlers from Ilhéus arrived in the first decade of the eighteenth century; it became the «Imperial Vila of Canavieiras» in 1832 and a city in 1891, its name coming from sugar cane growing. Here a new economic history began for all of southern Bahia, when Antônio Dias Ribeiro planted the first cacao seeds on the banks of the Pardo River in 1746. The municipality includes part of the Canavieiras Extractive Reserve, created in 2006, and many of its people live from fishing and shellfish gathering. Visitors come for the quiet beaches of Atalaia island, its historic centre from the cacao era and sport fishing.
Quiet beaches.
Historic centre.
And the Pardo River.
Canavieiras, mouth of the Pardo River, southern Bahia state
The first cacao seeds in southern Bahia were planted here in 1746.