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Caravelas

Caravelas is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants in southern , , a few miles above the mouth of the . Caravelas was founded in 1581 by Portuguese settlers.
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  • Type: Town with 20,600 residents
  • Description: municipality of Bahia State, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Caravellas”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Catedral de Santo Antônio de Caravelas.

Church
Photo: Djair Soares, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Caravelas

Latitude
-17.735° or 17° 44′ 6″ south
Longitude
-39.2627° or 39° 15′ 46″ west
Population
20,600
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
CRQ
United Nations Location Code
BR CRQ
Open location code
59J27P8P+2W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415522836
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3466980
Wiki­data ID
Q985956
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Caravelas” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كرفل”
  • Armenian: “Կարավելաս”
  • Basque: “Caravelas”
  • Belarusian: “Каравелас”
  • Bishnupriya: “কারাভেলাস”
  • Catalan: “Caravelas”
  • Cebuano: “Caravelas”
  • Chechen: “Каравелас”
  • Chinese: “Caravelas”
  • Chinese: “卡拉韦拉斯”
  • Dutch: “Caravelas”
  • Esperanto: “Caravelas”
  • French: “Caravelas”
  • Georgian: “კარაველასი”
  • German: “Caravelas”
  • Hebrew: “קראבלאס”
  • Hungarian: “Caravelas”
  • Irish: “Caravelas”
  • Italian: “Caravelas”
  • Japanese: “カラベラス”
  • Kazakh: “Karavelas”
  • Kazakh: “Каравелас”
  • Kazakh: “كاراۆەلاس”
  • Malagasy: “Caravelas”
  • Mazanderani: “کاراولاس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Caravelas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Caravelas”
  • Norwegian: “Caravelas”
  • Persian: “کاراولاس”
  • Polish: “Caravelas”
  • Portuguese: “Caravelas”
  • Romanian: “Caravelas”
  • Russian: “Каравелас”
  • Slovenian: “Caravelas”
  • Spanish: “Caravelas”
  • Swedish: “Caravelas”
  • Tatar: “Каравелас”
  • Turkish: “Caravelas”
  • Uzbek: “Caravelas”
  • Volapük: “Caravelas”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Caravelas”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Caravelas”. Photo: Túllio F, CC BY-SA 4.0.