Long beaches
Quiet.
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Nova Viçosa is a coastal town of about 42,000 people in the far south of Bahia, some 930 kilometres from Salvador, near Caravelas and the Espírito Santo border, with long quiet beaches and mangroves. The Aimoré people lived here; settlers from Mucuri arrived in 1720 and founded the village of Campinhos on the Peruípe River, which became a «vila» in 1798 named Viçosa for the lushness of its vegetation. The town keeps eighteenth-century buildings, among them the council house and jail and the Sobrado do Porto, along with an 1897 railway station. Its main draws are its beaches: Costa do Atlântico, Lugar Comum, Pau Fincado, Pontal da Barra and Sabacuí. The municipality includes part of the Cassurubá reserve, which protects mangroves, river and sea.
Quiet.
Eighteenth century.
Cassurubá reserve.
Nova Viçosa, far south of Bahia state
From the lush vegetation; «viçosa» means lush.