CARAVELLAS  , a small seaport of

southern Bahia, Brazil, on the Caravellas river a few miles above its mouth, which is dangerously obstructed by sandbars . Pop . (189o) of the municipality 5482, about one-half of whom lived in the town . Caravellas was once the centre of a flourishing whale fishery, but has since fallen into decay . It is the port of the Bahia & Minas railway, whose traffic is comparatively unimportant .