Salvador, Bahia
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Latin America Digest: Today's one-line news briefsSalvador, Brazil - Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Friday joined visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians. Bogota,... In this article: Recession, Los Angeles Times, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, Manuel Zelaya, Mahmoud Abbas, Colombia, Salvador, Brazil, Bogota, and Mexico City |
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Detroit News | 3 days ago
Ford investing $2.3B to boost production in Brazil
...emotions or socialize with … Continued EcoSports and Fiestas move on the assembly line at Ford's highly automated Camacari plant near Salvador da Bahia, Brazil in 2007. The manufacturing complex is Ford's most advanced assembly plant in the...
In this article: Brazil, Fiesta, EcoSport, Mark Fields, Ford do Brasil, Troller Veiculos Especiais S/A, Volkswagen AG, and Ford Motor Co.
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Charlotte Observer | 3 days ago
Palestinians to set new date for elections
...Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a visit to a religious museum in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. President Abbas is on three-day official visit to Brazil.
In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, West Bank, Ramallah, Gaza Strip, Gaza, Islamic, BBC Arabic, and Mark Twain
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Brazil leader urges freeze on Israeli settlements
...President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, shakes hands with Palestine's President Mahmoud Abbas before dinner at the Ondina Palace in Salvador, Brazil Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. President Abbas is on three-day visit to Brazil.
In this article: Mahmoud Abbas, Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Salvador, Mark Twain, Palestine, and Argentina
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Centre Daily Times | 5 days ago
Financial Literacy Takes Center Stage as Operation HOPE Founder John Hope Bryant Delivers “Silver Rights” Keynote for Central Bank of Brazil in South America
...leaders focused on Brazil's national microfinance agenda, Operation HOPE Chairman and CEO, John Hope Bryant, traveled to the city of Salvador to give the keynote address at the Forum Banco Central on Financial Inclusion, November 17.
In this article: Central Bank of Brazil, Central Bank, Silver, South America, Brazil, and Bank of Brazil
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Wired Top Stories | 6 days ago
Ancient Goat Lived Like a Lizard
..."Physiological and life history strategies of a fossil large mammal in a resource-limited environment. " By Meike Kohler and Salvador Moya. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 106, No. 46, Nov. 16, 2009. Brandon...
In this article: Goat, Myotragus balearicus, Twitter, E mail, Crocodile, and Wikipedia
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The Australian | 7 days ago
Capoeira Spectacular Live Stage Show
The super-fit, young men in Warriors of Brazil have escaped the cycle of gangland warfare in the favelas or ghettos of Salvador de Bahia, former epicentre of the African slave trade. Selected as part of a social development...
In this article: Brazil, Auckland, Wellington, Stage Show, 2014 World Cup, Christchurch, Civil War, Bosnian War, and Royal Shakespeare Company
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The News Tribune | November 09, 2009
With 124 dead, rescuers seek Salvador survivors
People make their way through the mud of a flooded road in Tecoluca, some 130 km east from San Salvador, Sunday,Nov. 8, 2009. Torrents of mud and boulders choked the streets of Verapaz as a massive wave of flooding killed 91 people...
In this article: Verapaz, El Salvador, Salvador, San Salvador, and Dave Roberts
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Rescuers dig for survivors in buried Salvador town
Workers walk along a street that was damaged by heavy rain in San Martin on the outskirts of San Salvador, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2009. El Salvador's interior minister says that 40 people have died throughout the country following three days of...
In this article: El Salvador, Verapaz, San Salvador, Mauricio Funes, Zacatecoluca, and God
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Reuters | November 08, 2009
UPDATE 3-Hurricane Ida strengthens, 42 dead in Salvador
...resort city of Cancun on the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday as heavy rains caused by the storm killed at least 42 people in El Salvador. El Salvador's interior minister said more victims were expected to be found as rescue workers moved...
In this article: Gulf of Mexico, Cancun, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Natural gas, Salvador, and Pemex
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BBC News | November 03, 2009
African heritage
...dictatorship, not elected. Edvaldo Brito is the only black man to have been mayor of Salvador Now the city's deputy mayor, he argues that Salvador's black population has the same rights and opportunities as its white citizens. The...
In this article: Salvador, Brazil, Africa, Democracy, and Federal University of Bahia
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Salvador (historic name, São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos, in English: "Holy Savior of All Saints' Bay") is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the Northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. Salvador is also known as Brazil's capital of happiness due to its easygoing population and countless popular outdoor parties, including its street carnival. The first colonial capital of Brazil, the city is one of the oldest in the country and in the New World; for a long time, it was also known as Bahia, and appears under that name (or as Salvador da Bahia, Salvador of Bahia so as to differentiate it from other Brazilian cities of the same name) on many maps and books from before the mid-20th century. Salvador is the third most populous Brazilian city, after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and it is the ninth most populous city in Latin America, after Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Lima, Bogotá, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago and Caracas.
The city of Salvador is notable in Brazil for its cuisine, music and architecture, and its metropolitan area is the wealthiest in the northeastern region of the country. Over 80% of the population of metropolitan region of Salvador has Black African ancestry. The African influence in many cultural aspects of the city makes it the center of Afro-Brazilian culture. The historical center of Salvador, frequently called the Pelourinho, is renowned for its Portuguese colonial architecture with historical monuments dating from the 17th through the 19th centuries and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985.
- Also Known As:
- Capital da Alegria (Capital of happiness) and Roma Negra (Black Rome).
- Type:
- Municipality
- Motto:
- Sic illa ad arcam reversa est (And thus the dove returned to the ark)
- Region:
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Founding Date:
- March 29, 1549
- Total Area (km):
- 706
- Elevation (m):
- 8
- Time Zone:
- UTC-3
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