Upper town
Views over the river mouth.
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Santa Cruz Cabrália is a historic coastal town of about 31,000 people in the far south of Bahia, some 20 kilometres north of Porto Seguro, on the «Discovery Coast» where the first Portuguese ships anchored in 1500. It grew with the arrival of the Portuguese, and when the country was divided into captaincies in 1534 it fell within Porto Seguro, granted to Pero de Campos Tourinho, who founded a village named Vera Cruz in 1536. Its upper town on the hill still keeps old buildings and a broad view over the river mouth and the sea. The town stands out for the culture of the Indigenous Pataxó, especially at Coroa Vermelha, recognised as their land in 1996, with two large centres selling their handicrafts, one built in the shape of their traditional huts. Calm beaches with coral reefs and natural pools run along its coast.
Views over the river mouth.
Pataxó crafts.
On the reefs.
Santa Cruz Cabrália, north of Porto Seguro, far south of Bahia state
About 20 kilometres north.