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What was there before.
A cove, a reef, a bay, a ridge. And those who were already there.
The way thereBaía de Camamu, Bahia
The crossing
The Maraú Peninsula is reached by water. The journey begins on the quay.
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What the cove has kept
Before the summer visitors there was a chapel, a whaling station and the first farmed mussels in the state.
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The red stone
At Piraputanga, the ridge, the river and the railway run side by side.
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The reef
A line of living rock, close to the sand, decides what the sea is like at Milagres.
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The saveiros of Cajaíba
On the far side of Camamu Bay, wooden boats are still built by hand.
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The river of the manatee
On the Tatuamunha, the gentlest animal of the coast has a river again.
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The coconut palm came from elsewhere
The tree that seems to have been born with the coast arrived by ship, in 1553.
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