Madre de Deus, Bahia

Municipality of Madre de Deus
Madre de Deus
Municipality
Sight at a Church in Madre de Deus.
Sight at a Church in Madre de Deus.
Flag of Municipality of Madre de Deus
Flag
Coat of arms of Municipality of Madre de Deus
Coat of arms
Location of Madre de Deus in Bahia and Brazil
Location of Madre de Deus in Bahia and Brazil
Coordinates: 12°44′27″S 38°37′15″W / 12.74083°S 38.62083°W / -12.74083; -38.62083
Country Brazil
RegionNordeste
StateBahia
Founded1990
Government
 • MayorJeferson Andrade Batista (PR)
Area
[1]
 • Total4.302 sq mi (11.141 km2)
Population
 (2020 [2])
 • Total21,432
Time zoneUTC−3 (BRT)
HDI (2000)0.740 – medium[3]
WebsiteOfficial website

Madre de Deus is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. The municipality is located on a small archipelago in the Bay of All Saints; it both the smallest municipality by land mass in Bahia and the Northeastern region of Brazil. Madre de Deus is spread across two islands, the Ilha de Madre de Deus and the much smaller Ilha de Maria Guarda. It sits in close proximity to two others islands, the Ilha do Bom Jesus dos Passos and Ilha dos Frades, both part of the city of Salvador. The Ilha de Madre de Deus is further subdivided into the neighborhoods of Centro, Suape, Cação, Marezinha, Mirim, Alto do Paraíso, Apicum, Nova Madre de Deus e Quitéria, Alto da Matriz, Alto do Santo Antônio, Alto da Boa Vista, Cururupeba, Malvinas, and Nova Brasília.[4][5]

Carnival in Madre de Deus is noted for costumes called caretas.

  1. ^ Official territorial area
  2. ^ IBGE 2020
  3. ^ [1] Archived 2012-08-08 at the Wayback Machine UNDP
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