Itacare

Itacare is a municipality inside the cocoa area of the state of Bahia in Brazil, south of Salvador. Itacare is placed 70 km north of Ilheus in which the Rio de Contas, which comes from the Chapada Diamantina, meets the Atlantic Ocean. Itacare has approximately 27,000 residents. Out of these, about 50 according to cent live in the rural interior. A mixture of races - Amerindian, black and white - can be visible inside the capabilities of the natives, called "nacao grapiuna", whom Jorge Amado affectionately referred to as "the captivating people of this land". You can come here and explore this place.

The town changed into founded as a Portuguese colonial agreement, initially referred to as Sao Jorge dos Ilheus, in 1532. The city become a notorious hangout for Dutch and Portuguese pirates at some stage in the early colonial duration and later have become a hub for the cocoa planting and a port for whalers. It changed into formally given metropolis popularity in 1881. The municipality incorporates 41 in line with cent of the 9,275 hectares Serra do Conduru State Park, created in 1997. It also carries 14.88 per cent of the 118,000 hectares Baia de Camamu Environmental Protection Area, created in 2002.