Alcobaça, Bahia
| Alcobaça | |
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| Municipality | |
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Church in Alcobaça | |
 Location in Bahia | |
| Coordinates: 17°31′08″S 39°11′46″W / 17.519°S 39.196°WCoordinates: 17°31′08″S 39°11′46″W / 17.519°S 39.196°W | |
| Country | Brazil |
| State | Bahia |
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.[1] 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.[2]
References
- ↑ RESEX do Cassurubá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Ambiental, retrieved 2016-06-22
- ↑ Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos (in Portuguese), ICMBio, retrieved 2016-04-30
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