Salvador( Saviour in English )is the third most populated city in Brazil, about ; 2.711.372 inhabitants and aroun 3.900 ihab/km2 in an area of 707 km2.
History:
On March 29,1549 arriving from "Ponta do Padrão" Tomé de Souza and tipulation recieved direct orders from the king of Portugal to establish a fortress city named, São Salvador( Saint Saviour ). Tomé de Souza became the first general governer of Brazil. THE CITY OF SÃO SALVADOR DA BAHIA DE TODOS OS SANTOS( saint saviour of Bahia of all saints ),was capital and colonial administrative center of Braziluntil 1763. With the proclamation of the Rebublic, sugar exportation crises, the economical and political influence became day-by-day less important in Salvador.
Tourism:
Salvador is an important turistic place. It atracts many visitors by the beauty of it's architectonic buildings and monuments, also local culture( music, culinary and religion ). You can visit the underground level of the Mercado Modelo that was once used to store the slaves that came from Africa while the waited to be auctioned.
Carnaval:
Acording to the guiness book records 2004 it is the world's largest carnival festival ... Soteropolitanos( city's residents ) are very happy and cheerful people. Brazil's best musicians are soteropolitanos due to our rich cultural background ... Here are some of them ...
Ethnics:
Acording to IBGE 23% of Salvador's population is white, 20,4% black, 54,8% pardo( tan ), 0,3% yellow and 0,8% are natives. Salvador is the city with the most african descendants in the world followed by New York city.
Culinary:
Our culinary is directly descended by the Africans, creating a diversity of dishes based on the "azeite de dendê"( dendê kitchen oil ) although the deserts have a portuguese background( not brazilian ).
Climate:
Salvador has a tropical climate. Records: in the summer of 1999 was recorded 37,1 celsius and winter of 2000 the lowest was 18,9 celsius
here are some more photos :
Most of the pictures here were borrowed by a brazilian forimist, Roque ... so he gets some credit too... thaks>
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