Alcobaça is a municipality of Bahia, Brazil.
Alcobaça | |
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 Church in Alcobaça | |
 Flag  Seal | |
 Location in Bahia | |
| Coordinates: 17°31′08″S 39°11′46″W / 17.519°S 39.196°W | |
| Country | Brazil |
| State | Bahia |
| Population (2020 [1]) | |
• Total | 22,490 |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
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.[2] 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.[3]
References
edit- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ RESEX do Cassurubá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Ambiental, retrieved 2016-06-22
- ^ Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos (in Portuguese), ICMBio, archived from the original on 2020-09-30, retrieved 2016-04-30
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