Madre de Deus, Bahia

Municipality of Madre de Deus

Madre de Deus
Municipality of Madre de Deus Madre de Deus
Municipality
	Sight at a Church in Madre de Deus.
	Flag Coat of arms
	Location of Madre de Deus in Bahia and Brazil
	Coordinates: 12°44′27″S 38°37′15″W / 12.74083°S 38.62083°W
Country	Brazil
Region	Nordeste
State	Bahia
Founded	1990
Government
• Mayor	Jeferson Andrade Batista (PR)
Area
• Total	4.302 sq mi (11.141 km2)
Population (2020 )
• Total	21,432
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
HDI (2000)	0.740 – medium
Website	Official 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.

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Municipality of Madre de Deus Madre de Deus
Municipality
Sight at a Church in Madre de Deus.
Flag Coat of arms
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
Region	Nordeste
State	Bahia
Founded	1990
Government
• Mayor	Jeferson Andrade Batista (PR)
Area ^[1]
• Total	4.302 sq mi (11.141 km²)
Population (2020 ^[2])
• Total	21,432
Time zone	UTC−3 (BRT)
HDI (2000)	0.740 – medium^[3]
Website	Official website

Madre de Deus, Bahia

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