In the origins, its history gets confused with the Brazilian one, because it was in Porto Seguro, Bahia, that discoverer Pedro Alvarez Cabral fleet first arrived, in 1500. Your capital, Salvador is a beautiful city and the baianos turn your visit full of fascination and happiness.

In the republican phase, Bahia became known by the War of the Canudos (Tubes) that, for that time, it propitiated a fine Brazilian literature, "The Interiors", by Euclides of Cunha.

The beach cities, with immense coqueirais, from Islanders, Santa Cruz of Cabrália, Porto Seguro and Grassland, besides the Islands of Itaparica, Tide and Friars, they dazzle the visitors.

They deserve a special visit:

• the historical city of Waterfall
• the weekly fairs of the big Feira de Santana city
• Itabuna with the cocoa civilization and its alive characters immortalized by the writer Jorge Amado.

People fond of the nature will like to know:

• National Park of Diamantina Plate
• National Park Marine of Caltrops
• Rio San Francisco, for the ones who likes to appreciate different forms of life, descending the river in a typical "gaiola" (a river boat).

The Polo Petroquímico of Camaçari and the Industrial Center of Aratu lead the bahian economy.

The area west of the State, with enormous cattle farms, is in phase of great development, caused by proximity with the Capital of the Republic - Brasília.

For those who come from the southeast states, the capital, Salvador is one of the Gates of Entrance of the Northeast.