Posto da Mata
Posto da Mata is a district of the municipality of Nova Viçosa in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The name literally means a station in the woods, as there was a train station in the middle of the Atlantic forest that connected the south of the state of Bahia with the east of Minas Gerais, serving as a place to recharge the fuel.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Elizanio Belo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Posto da Mata
- Type: Town with 22,200 residents
- Description: district of Nova Viçosa
- Categories: municipality district of Brazil and locality
- Location: Nova Viçosa Municipality, Bahia, Northeast, Brazil, South America
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Latitude
-17.88315° or 17° 52′ 59″ southLongitude
-39.8579° or 39° 51′ 28″ westPopulation
22,200Elevation
78 metres (256 feet)Open location code
59J2448R+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 416645059OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3454839Wikidata ID
Q10352136
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In Other Languages
From Esperanto to Uzbek—“Posto da Mata” goes by many names.
- Esperanto: “Posto da Mata”
- French: “Posto da Mata”
- Portuguese: “Pasto da Mata”
- Portuguese: “Posto da Mata”
- Uzbek: “Posto da Mata”
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