Alcobaça, Bahia

Alcobaça
Alcobaça
Municipality
	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 )
• Total	22,490
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)

Alcobaça is a municipality of Bahia, Brazil.

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

^ 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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[1] IBGE 2020

[2] RESEX do Cassurubá (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Ambiental, retrieved 2016-06-22

[3] Parque Nacional Marinho dos Abrolhos (in Portuguese), ICMBio, archived from the original on 2020-09-30, retrieved 2016-04-30

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