The state of Bahia offers from north to south various reliefs bordering the coast. To the south of the bay of Bahia, at the Costa do Dendê, parallel to the coast (although a good hundred kilometers), is a small mountain massif barring the passage to the cloudy masses of the Atlantic Ocean which water regularly this coastal part, allowing the presence of this forest that requires a great protection, human stupidity does not take into account the importance of such a wealth on this land.

Bahia State
From north to south, we distinguish various denominations of the seaside in function that one goes down towards the south:
*the Coconut Coast (located at the north of the capital Salvador),
*the Bay of All Saints (geographical area of Bahia Bay),
*the Dênde Coast (located between the river Jaguaripe and the Camamu Bay, real succession of beaches, mangroves, rocky coasts, water source, rivers, cachoeiras and estuaries),
*the Cacau Coast (from the town of Ilhéus to the little cities Canavieiras and Santa Luzia at the south),
*the Discovery Coast (from the village of Belmonte to Caraiva at the south) classified as a World Natural Heritage by Unesco in 1999,
*the Whales Coast (Covering the municipalities of Prado, Alcobaça, Caravelas, Nova Viçosa and Mucuri, southernmost).