Caravelas

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Caravelas is a fishing village of about 20,000 inhabitants in southern Bahia, Brazil, a few miles above the mouth of the Caravelas River.

It was founded in 1503 by Portuguese settlers. Caravelas was once the centre of a flourishing whale fishery. It is the port of the Bahia & Minas railway.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.