Source: WTL photograph© on site in Bahia.
Comment: In 2007, the population in the metropolitan region of Bahia was 3,435,000. This population is distributed roughly thus: 1,900,000 million mulattos (55%; Portuguese: pardo); 1,000,000 black (29%), 500,000 white (16%), 35,000 Asian and Amerindian (1%). Demographers conclude, therefore, that most of the population of Bahia is descended from black African Yoruba slaves from Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, and Benin. In this photograph you see one of the old colonial streets in the historic center of the city. For another view of poverty in Bahia's centro cidade, see: => Bahia #14a.