Alcobaça, Bahia

Coordinates: 17°31′08″S 39°11′46″W / 17.519°S 39.196°W / -17.519; -39.196
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Alcobaça
Municipality
Church in Alcobaça
Church in Alcobaça
Flag of Alcobaça
Official seal of Alcobaça
Location in Bahia
Location in Bahia
Coordinates: 17°31′08″S 39°11′46″W / 17.519°S 39.196°W / -17.519; -39.196
CountryBrazil
StateBahia
Population
 (2020 [1])
 • Total22,490
Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)

Alcobaça is a municipality of Bahia, Brazil.

The municipality contains part of the Cassurubá Extractive Reserve, a 100,768 hectares (249,000 acres) sustainable use conservation unit that protects an area of mangroves, river and sea where shellfish are harvested.[2] The Timbebas reef opposite Alcobaça is part of the 91,330 hectares (225,700 acres) Abrolhos Marine National Park, a conservation unit created in 1983.[3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ IBGE 2020
  2. ^ RESEX do Cassurubá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Ambiental, retrieved 2016-06-22
  3. ^ Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos (in Portuguese), ICMBio, archived from the original on 2020-09-30, retrieved 2016-04-30