Caravelas is a city of about 20,000 inhabitants in southern Bahia, Brazil, a few miles above the mouth of the Caravelas River.

It is the port of the Bahia & Minas railway pt.

[2] Caravelas is the nearest town to the uninhabited Abrolhos Archipelago.

[3] The city 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.

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