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	Bahia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bahia was a center of sugar cultivation from the 16th to the 18th centuries, and contains a number of historical towns dating from this era.
		Bahia is the birthplace of such noted Brazilian musicians as Dorival Caymmi, João Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso and his sister Maria Bethânia, Daniela Mercury, Ivete Sangalo, and Carlinhos Brown, and home to internationally famous groups like Olodum, Ara Ketu, and Ilê Aiyê.
		Bahia is the main producer and exporter of cacao in Brazil.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bahia (533 words)

	Travel in Bahia - Brazil - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		The State of Bahia is located in eastern Brazil, bathed by the Atlantic Ocean along the state's 932 kilometres of coastline, two bays, more than 100 islands and innumerable coves and river deltas.
		Bahia is the soul of Brazil, the land of carnival, candomble, capoeira, maculele and samba.
		In Bahia is one of the most beautiful areas of the Brazilian coastline, combining sun, sand and palm trees in a seductive and irresistible manner.
	www.americatravelling.net /brazil/bahia/bahia_culture.htm (487 words)

	Encyclopedia: Salvador, Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Map of the Bahia bay in 1882 Flag of Bahia Bahia is a state in the north-east of Brazil.
		It quickly became Brazil's main sea port and the first colonial capital of Portuguese Brazil, a center of the sugar industry and the slave trade.
		Salvador was the capital city of the Portuguese viceroyalty of GrÃ£o-ParÃ¡ and its province of Bahia de Todos os Santos.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Salvador,-Brazil (2240 words)

	Lower City of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger. Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Salvador, or Bahia, city and port in northeastern Brazil, and capital of the state of Bahia.
		Northeastern Brazil is one of the country’s most impoverished regions and it is characterized by high birth and infant mortality rates.
		During much of the Portuguese colonial period it was Brazil’s principal port, exporting sugar, cacao, and tobacco and receiving tens of thousands of slaves imported from Africa.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /salvador_bahia_lower.htm (1147 words)

	Map of Bahia, Brazil
		Bahia is one of the largest States of Brazil; with 567,295 km2, it´s slightly smaller than France.
		The area of Porto Seguro - Ilhéus is one of the busiest tourist destinations of Brazil, both because of the History and because of the beaches.
		The state of Bahia is crossed from north to south by a mountain chain which is marked, in the map, as Chapada Diamantina; this same chain receives other names, like Serra do Espinhaço, in Minas Gerais, and Borborema, in Pernambuco and Paraíba.
	www.v-brazil.com /tourism/bahia/map-bahia.html (345 words)

	Salvador - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Salvador (in full, São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos, meaning "Holy Savior of the Bay of All Saints") is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia.
		The city became the seat of the first Catholic bishop of Brazil in 1552, and is still an ecclesiastical power center of Brazilian Catholicism.
		EC Bahia has won a national title twice: Brazil's Cup (equivalent to the championship of the Brazilian league prior to 1971) in 1959 and the championship of the Brazilian League in 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salvador,_Brazil (919 words)

	Reducing Poverty Sustaining Growth Shanghai Conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The field visit to Bahia, Brazil, from March 23 to 25 was the sixth of eight country visits that are part of the Global Learning Process on Scaling up Poverty Reduction.
		The visit to Bahia illustrated how the State is using a community driven development (CDD) model as the platform for service provision to the rural poor, including access to land and land title, as well as for providing slum upgrading services, including education, to the urban poor.
		Today, 98% of Bahia’s children are in school, infant mortality has dropped by one-third, and literacy rose at a higher rate than the rest of Brazil.
	www.worldbank.org /wbi/reducingpoverty/FV-Brazil-Bahia.html (1441 words)

	Bahia-Brazil "Magical Place"
		Some of Brazil's all time best musicians, writers, and painters were born in the extremely religious, decadent, and profane Bahia of that time in History.
		Brazil's 5 regions became so different from one another that it was (and still is) hard to believe that all of them belonged to the same nation.
		Monument to the Discovery of Brazil in 1500.
	hometown.aol.com /pochetti7/Bahia-Brazil1.html (2318 words)

	Bahia (Salvador) Brazil - The Connected Traveler
		Bahia was the first city the Portuguese founded when they forced the native population inland in the 16th Century and was Brazil's capital for more than 200 years.
		The other Bahia can only be discovered on foot, slowly savoring the details: doorway framing painterly pictures, sounds, smells, rhythms sniping at your senses.
		The biggest celebration is Carnival, which in Bahia attracts an estimated 2 million people and is said to be larger than the more famous one in Rio.
	www.connectedtraveler.com /bahia.html (916 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Theater/Arts / Bahia's vibrant culture shines in the dances of Bale Folclorico
		That's where Bale Folclorico da Bahia, an internationally acclaimed Afro-Brazilian dance company, is based, and it's the kind of energy it seems to channel.
		Botelho, 44, was raised in an upper-middle-class family in Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, and he studied classical and modern dance in his youth.
		For example, the dance "Maculele" -- a charged, almost warlike piece he choreographed in which men whirl and clash with sticks and machetes, literally creating sparks -- is derived from a harvest celebration in the colonial sugar cane plantations; the movements, Botelho says, were also a way for slaves to practice self-defense against their owners.
	www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2004/10/21/bahias_vibrant_culture_shines_in_the_dances_of_bale_folclorico (525 words)

	Bahia Boy Guide Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Portuguese colony of Brazil in 1549, and remained the capital for two centuries.
		Today Bahia is the state in Brasil with the highest concentration of
		Bahia's close cultural affinity with Africa is evident in the Samba-Reggae beats that pervades the city day and night, in the
	members.aol.com /bahiaboybrasil (579 words)

	CPD: South America, Site SA12, Atlantic Moist Forest of Southern Bahia, Brazil
		Brazil's Atlantic Coast forest is one of two most endangered forests on Earth only 2-5% of original forest estimated worth saving.
		Brazil's moist eastern forests also appear to have many evolutionarily primitive species; such bambusoid taxa suggest that Bahia may have been a source of bambusoid grasses that colonized Amazonia (Soderstrom and Calderón 1980).
		In southern Bahia, where endemism and diversity are particularly high and the extent of remaining intact forest is so low, the forest preserves are especially precious.
	www.nmnh.si.edu /botany/projects/cpd/sa/sa12.htm (2147 words)

	Carlinhos Brown of Bahia, Brazil
		Salvador de Bahia was Brazil's first center of government (from 1549 to 1763), but remains it's musical capital.
		For centuries, Bahia was home of the Portuguese the sugar industry, and the slave trade.
		Brazil has no social safety net, and the country has the largest gap between rich and poor in the hemisphere, with millions lacking housing, education, and access to health care.
	www.rootsworld.com /rw/feature/brown.html (1467 words)

	Brazil - BRAZZIL - The Northeast - Bahia, Where Brazil Was Discovered - Information on Brazil, Travel, and Tourism - ...
		At the time, Brazil's many uncompetitive sugar estates, which had not followed the lead of other countries and introduced new production techniques to increase sugar output, were reeling from a drop in world sugar prices.
		With the sugar plantations in the doldrums, impoverished agricultural workers from the Northeast—fl and white—flocked to the hills surrounding Ilhéus to farm the new boom crop: cacao, the ouro branco (white gold) of Brazil.
		Porto Seguro's Carnaval is acquiring a reputation throughout Brazil as a hell of a party, although it is not at all traditional.
	www.brazzil.com /trasep98.htm (3792 words)

	Bahia - states of Brazil - sites, pictures, information
		The History of Brazil commences in the coast of Bahia, where the first Portuguese arrived.
		Bahia is one of the states where the fl influence was more profound; until today, the "flness" of the culture is used to attract visitors.
		The first big reservoirs of Brazilian petroleum were found in Bahia; decades later, a large petrochemical complex was built near Salvador.
	www.v-brazil.com /information/geography/bahia.html (230 words)

	Bahia-Online: The Online Guide to Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
		Brazil is one of them; an amalgam of primitive and sophisticated, jungle and elegance, beating drums and luscious jazz harmonics -- there's no other place like it in the world.
		Bahia's music is a wondrous manifold of African, indigenous, and European styles and influences coalesced into melodies, rhythms, and means-of-expression which sonorically paint the heart and soul of this vibrant area of the planet.
		Bahia's great Bule Bule -- Antônio Ribeiro da Conceição -- a living repository of folklore, chulas do sertão, cocos, martelos, agalopados, xote, marche de pé-de-serra, and repentes (these are rhythms and styles of music), will appear at the Teatro Sesc in the Largo do Pelourinho tomorrow night at 8 p.m.
	www.bahia-online.net (3262 words)

	Essence: Bahia - Brazil - includes information on Afrocentric cultural tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I've never been to the Motherland, but in Bahia the movement, the color, the flavor are all home--albeit home to a samba beat.
		And like most of the other baroque-style edifices in Bahia, it was constructed by Africans at the behest of their Portuguese captors.
		Though the overall population of Bahia is humble in material wealth, I feel that I was given a most invaluable gift--a chance to experience a rich and still-flourishing African culture.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1264/is_n12_v22/ai_12102797 (1198 words)

	Pousada Colibry - Itacaré - Bahia - Brazil
		The pousada Colibry is in Itacaré, in the state of Bahia, the most known and exotic brazilian state.
		Bahia is famous for its fine climate, its particular culture and the beauty of its landscapes.
		The natural beauty of this region of Brazil offers to visitors many waterfalls, beautifull beaches, tracks in the forest.
	pousadacolibry.free.fr /localizacao/localization-uk.html (384 words)

	Salvador, Bahia World's Greatest Street Carnaval
		Consult Bahia Toursa about alternative Carnaval events like Itapoã, the old fishing village where a whale is delivered to the sea on the last day of Carnaval or other Carnaval events throughout the state in different months.
		Brazil is noteworthy for the flexibility and syncretism of its spiritual practices.
		Fighters are always playful and respectful and throughout Bahia and Brazil you will find rodas (semicircles) of practitioners playing the berimbau and other instruments to provide an interactive rhythm.
	www.carnaval.com /cityguides/brazil/salvador/salvcarn.htm (2864 words)

	Travel in Bahia - Brazil - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		In Portuguese (Brazil's Official Language) the word "bay" is translated "baia".
		When the Empire of Brazil was proclaimed in 1822, Bahia was still controlled by forces loyal to Portugal; but on July 2, 1823, Brazilian troops occupied Salvador, and Bahia became a province of the empire.
		In 1889, under the republic, Bahia became a state of the Brazilian Federation.
	www.americatravelling.net /brazil/bahia/bahia_history.htm (356 words)

	Help fight Sickle Cell Anemia in Bahia, Brazil!
		As is true with many maladies affecting the poor, hemoglobin disorders in Bahia, and especially Sickle Cell Anemia (graphic from http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/), represent another brick in the wall of health deficiencies, the cumulative impact of which contributes to a sense of despair that permeates life on the margins of Brazilian society.
		The federal university in Bahia is working to implement new treatment strategies and is conducting studies for treating with Hydroxurea, a powerful drug used to treat both Sickle Cell Anemia and cancer.
		The state of Bahia and its capital city, Salvador, were the major point of disembarkation for African slaves and this area remains the most genetically Africanized in Brazil.
	www.iei.net /~pwagner/hemoglobinc.htm (1102 words)

	Bahia on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Age and growth of spotted sand bass, paralabrax maculatofasciatus, in Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California, Mexico, with age validation using Otolith edge analysis.
		Shallow-water Campanulariidae (Hydrozoa, Leptothecatae) from Northern Bahia, Brazil.
		Betting on Bahia The Seminole indians are wagering $7 million on the success of the Bahia Beach Island Resort and Marina.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-B1ahiaC1it.asp (622 words)

	SIR-C/X-SAR image Bahia, Brazil
		This is a color composite image of southern Bahia, Brazil, centered at 15.22 degree south latitude and 39.07 degrees west longitude.
		The 7,000-hectare reserve is administered by the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and is part of the larger Atlantic coastal forest, a narrow band of rain forest extending along the eastern coast of Brazil.
		The shuttle imaging radar is used in this study to identify various land uses and vegetation types, including remaining patches of primary forest, cabruca forest (cacao planted in the understory of the native forest), secondary forest, pasture and coastal mangrove.
	www.op.dlr.de /ne-hf/SRL-2/p44812_bahia.html (783 words)

	Citizen Service Centers in Bahia, Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To manage the payroll system for SAC employees, the Government of Bahia pays the salaries of employees of federal agencies that are participating in the SAC.
		The SAC experience in Bahia demonstrates that it is possible to bring about tremendous improvements in the quality and efficiency of government services without significant back end reengineering.
		In Bahia, government policy makers found it was easier to train new workers in how to deliver services in the SACs than to instill a high-quality customer service ethic in the majority of the state's existing public employees.
	www1.worldbank.org /publicsector/egov/bahiaSAC.htm (1318 words)

	Programs - Office for Study Abroad - International Programs - The University of Iowa
		The African legacy in Brazil thrived in colonial times, and nowadays it remains a driving force, emerging in cultural, artistic and religious elements that can be seen throughout the country, and especially in this city.
		With a population of 1.8 million, Salvador is Brazil's fourth largest city in Brazil and capital of the state of Bahia.
		Profesor Barbosa was born and raised in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
	www.uiowa.edu /%7Euiabroad/programs/brazil_lang.htm (1349 words)

	Salvador Da Bahia, Brazil
		Salvador Da Bahia is the original capital of Brazil and is the heart of the Afro-Brazilain culture.
		Later on, the province would be officially named "The Province of Bahia" (the province of the bay).
		Salvador-Bahia became Brazil's first capital back when the country was one of Portugal's colonies, and remained like that for 214 years (until it was transferred to Rio, and finally to Brasilia).
	www.advantage-intl.com /bahia.html (179 words)

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