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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Alcobaça, Bahia

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. 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.

References

  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