Rodelas is a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
state
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of
Bahia
Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo, Minas Gerais, and Rio de Janeiro) and the 5th-largest b ...
in the
North-East region of
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Geography
The municipality contains part of the
Raso da Catarina Ecological Station
Raso da Catarina Ecological Station ( pt, Estação Ecológica Raso da Catarina) is a strictly protected ecological station in the state of Bahia in Brazil.
It lies in the Raso da Catarina ecoregion of the Caatinga biome.
Location
The ecologica ...
, created in 2001.
The municipality was designated a priority area for conservation and sustainable use when the
Caatinga Ecological Corridor
The Caatinga Ecological Corridor ( pt, Corredor Ecológico da Caatinga) is an ecological corridor in the caatinga biome of northeast Brazil.
History
The decree creating the Caatinga Ecological Corridor was signed on 28 April 2006 by the Minister ...
was created in 2006.
History
The
unattested indigenous language ''Peria'' (also spelled ''Poria'') was formerly spoken in Rodelas. The extinct
Tuxá language
Tuxá (Tusha; also ''Todela ~ Rodela, Carapató, Payacú'') was the eastern Brazilian language of the Tuxá people, who now speak Portuguese. The language ceased being spoken in the late 19th century, but in the 1960s a research team found two w ...
was also spoken in Rodelas.
See also
*
List of municipalities in Bahia
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Bahia (BA), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Bahia is divided into 417 municipalities, which are grouped into 32 microregions, which are grouped into 7 mesoregions.
See also
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References
Municipalities in Bahia
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