Ilheus

Ilheus is a major city located inside the southern coastal location of Bahia, Brazil, 211 km south of Salvador, the country's capital. The town turned into based in 1534 as Vila de Sao Jorge dos Ilheus and is called one of the maximum crucial tourism centers of the northeast of Brazil. Ilheus has approximately 222,000 inhabitants, with a place of 1850 km sq, and its downtown is positioned 1 km faraway from the Atlantic Ocean.

Once one of the most important exporters of cocoa beans, the city relies upon almost completely on tourism. The city's financial system is primarily based particularly on tourism, because of its seashores and cultural history that includes early Portuguese homes, history and culinary differences, which deliver to the metropolis many Brazilian and foreign travelers. Ilheus is the fatherland of Jorge Amado, the first-rate known and maximum popular author in Brazil.

He wrote over 25 novels, which had been translated into forty eight languages and stayed on bestseller lists in fifty two international locations. His novels like Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands portray lifestyles and customs inside the Northeastern vicinity of Brazil. The plots of those and his other important works in large part treat the lives of bad city and rural black and mulatto groups of Bahia, in addition to the land wars that raged in Ilheus, wherein cocoa barons killed each different for energy and cocoa plantations.