Salvador

Salvador (in full, São Salvador da Baía de Todos os Santos, meaning "Holy Savior of the Bay of All Saints") is a city on the northeast coast of Brazil and the capital of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia. The city was for a long time also known as Bahia, and appears under that name (or as Salvador da Bahia) on many maps and books from before the mid 20th century, including in Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719).

Salvador Today

The city is divided into a cidade alta ("upper city") and cidade baixa ("lower city"), with the Cathedral and administrative buildings on higher ground. The city contains many colonial buildings, including the first cathedral in Brazil, and the nation's oldest medical college, but it has become famous for the strong presence of the African culture in the city. The majority population is of African ancestry. It is the center of Yoruba Candomblé and of the martial dance art of capoeira, and has so many churches (over 350, including the 16th century cathedral) that it has been dubbed the "Black Rome". The African influence extends beyond religion to include food, music (from the spiritually influenced afoxé and the community-based blocos afros to the more popular axé and samba) and a dynamic cultural life.

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Cathedral - Medical - College - Africa - Yoruba - Candomblé - Capoeira - Rome - Afoxé - Blocos afros - Axé - Samba

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The city's official literacy rate is 81%. As of the late 1990s, the average monthly income was R$ 1,108.00 (about 447 US dollars). Sanitation is a problem in the poorer neighborhoods. About 1/3 of the residents have neither sewage hookups nor septic tanks.

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US dollars - Sewage - Septic tank

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The city has several universities:

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• Universidade Federal da Bahia,
• State University of Bahia,
• Catholic University of Salvador.
• see also List of universities in Brazil

Salvador is noted for its large Carnival celebrations.

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Esporte Clube Bahia and Esporte Clube Vitória are Salvador´s main soccer teams. EC Bahia has won a national title twice: Brazil's Cup (equivalent to the championship of the Brazilian league prior to 1971) in 1959 and the championship of the Brazilian League in 1988. EC Vitoria, on the other side, has never won a national title and was only once the runner up in the Brazilian League in 1993.

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Esporte Clube Bahia - Esporte Clube Vitória - 1971 - 1959 - 1988 - 1993

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Salvador is an important tourism destination, especially the Pelourinho or old town and the beaches.

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Tourism - Beach

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Ford Motor Company has a plant in the Salvador Metropolitan Area, in the city of Camaçari, assembling the Ford Courier, Ford Ecosport and Ford Fiesta.

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Ford Motor Company - Ford Courier - Ford Ecosport - Ford Fiesta

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Salvador has an international airport named Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport which is connected with several International destinations, including Amsterdam (seasonal), Frankfurt (seasonal), Lisbon, Madrid, Tel Aviv (seasonal), Luanda (seasonal) and Miami. It's IATA code is SSA and it is the 6th busiest airport in the country, behind CGH, GRU, BSB, SDU and GIG.

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Deputado Luís Eduardo Magalhães International Airport - Amsterdam - Frankfurt - Lisbon - Madrid - Tel Aviv - Luanda - Miami - CGH - GRU - BSB - SDU - GIG

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