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TV Bahia (channel 10) is a television station in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, affiliated with TV Brasil. The station is maintained by the Bahia Educational Radio Broadcasting Institute (IRDEB), a government body of the State of Bahia that is also responsible for radio station Educadora FM.

Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó, also known as the Terreiro do Bogum, is a Candomblé terreiro in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It is located high in the Engenho Velho da Federação, or simply Federação neighborhood of Salvador on Ladeira do Bogum, a narrow street, formerly known as Ladeira Manoel do Bonfim. It is an area long associated with residents of Kingdom of Dahomey descent. The terreiro covers 1,000 square metres (11,000 sq ft), of which 600 square metres (6,500 sq ft) is used for and includes religious structures and open spaces.The terreiro is associated with the Jejé branch of the religion; it is both the first and last remaining Jejé terreiro in the region. It differs from other Candomblé terreiros of the Salvador region in its use of the Ewe language of present-day Benin, in contrast to the widespread use of Yoruba in other temples. The temple uses the term vodun for its deities in place of the more common orixás; it is one of its numerous similarities to Haitian Vodou. The Bogum community closely related to Jejé temples in Cachoeira, a small city in the Recôncavo Baiano in the interior of Bahia. The Zoogodô Bogum Malê Seja Undé (Roça do Ventura) terreiro in Cachoeira shares a lineage with Zoogodô Bogum Malê Rundó.

Band Bahia (channel 4) is a Rede Bandeirantes-owned-and-operated station licensed to the city of Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. The station also serves as a regional flagship for the Northeast Region on special broadcasts. The station also extends its coverage beyong Bahia, with a relay station in Aracaju, Sergipe, which operates commercially as Band Aracaju.

Brotas is a neighborhood located in the western zone of Salvador, Bahia. When Nordeste Linhas Aéreas Regionais existed, its headquarters were in Brotas.

Center for Studies and Social Action (CEAS) was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1967 and works to diminish poverty and social exclusion] in the Northeast Region, Brazil. It lends its assistance to urban and rural groups and produces a journal.

TV Salvador was a Brazilian television station based in Salvador, capital of the state of Bahia. It operated on UHF channels 28 and 36 on NET and was owned by Rede Bahia.

TV Bahia (channel 11) is a television station in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, affiliated with TV Globo. Owned by Rede Bahia, TV Bahia is the principal station of Rede Bahia de Televisão, a statewide television network composed of another five owned-and-operated stations. TV Bahia's studios and transmitter are located on Prof. Aristídes Novis Street in the Federação district, in Salvador. Its terrestrial signal, through the station in Salvador and translators, reaches 133 cities in the state. Currently, besides being the leader in Salvador, it has the third largest ratings among Globo's stations in Brazil. The station signed on the air officialy on March 10, 1985, 10 months after receiving its license from the federal government, making it the fourth-oldest television station in Bahia. It was inaugurated as a Rede Manchete affiliate, having at the time the most modern equipment among Bahia's television stations and the highest transmission tower in the Northern and Northeast regions of Brazil. Its local programming initially featured the sports program Manchete Esportiva Bahia, hosted by Ivan Pedro, and the newscast Bahia em Manchete, which had Paulo Gil as anchor. It became a partner of Rede Globo in 1987, after a troubled transition process, marked by a long judicial and political dispute initiated by the owners of TV Aratu (channel 4). With the Globo affiliation, it made its first big expansion of local programming, premiering two editions of the now-traditional newscast BATV and Jornal da Manhã, its first morning newscast. The affiliation with the Rio de Janeiro network gave the station the ratings leadeship in the state. It was a pioneer among the Globo affiliates in the production of telenovelas, producing Danada de Sabida, inspired by the work of João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 1997. TV Bahia was also the first to use a helicopter for news coverage in the state, premiering in February 1999 the BahiaCop. On December 1, 2008, on the first anniversary of digital terrestrial television in Brazil, it became the first television station in Brazil's Northern and Northeast regions to start broadcasting its programming in this format, making Salvador the seventh city in Brazil to receive digital television. Due to the shareholding participation of members of the Magalhães family (which has members participating in the political class, such as former senator Antônio Carlos Magalhães) in Rede Bahia, a conglomerate of which TV Bahia is part, the station's news department has been target of various controversies involving politicians in part of its history. During her mandate, Salvador mayor Lídice da Mata blamed TV Bahia for the unpopularity of her administration, accusing the coverage of the problems of the capital's administration of being made with the intention of harming her and thus, favoring her opponents. During the Salvador elections in 2012, candidate Nelson Pelegrino filed a lawsuit against TV Bahia due to the appearance of candidate ACM Neto in a report. The workers campaign's suit was denied by the Electoral Court.

The Salvador Metro (Brazilian Portuguese: Metrô de Salvador, commonly called Metrô or Sistema Metropolitano Salvador-Lauro de Freitas) is a rapid transit system serving Salvador city, the state capital of Bahia and the fourth largest city in Brazil. The current system is 34 km (21 mi) long and has twenty stations, which began partial public service on June 11, 2014. The system arrives until the center of the city of Lauro de Freitas also. It is operated by CCR METRÔ BAHIA Company. Additionally, Salvador is served by a 14-kilometre (8.7 mi) 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge railway line known as the Suburban Line (Calçada-Paripe) that does not connect with the Metro. This suburban line will soon become a VLT line integrated to the 43 km (27 mi) of the subway of Salvador. The construction of the SMSL is carried out in an expansion divided in six stages that will integrate the traditional center of the city until Pirajá (later, until the district of Águas Claras, near Cajazeiras), and until the neighboring municipality of Lauro de Freitas through Line 1 and Line 2 respectively, totaling 41.8 kilometers (17.6 of Line 1 and 24.2 of Line 2) and 22 stations. As part of the efforts to implement integrated transportation in Greater Salvador, the subway assumes the role of structural trunk system, while the others must be complementary and feeder. Therefore, according to the requirement of integration put in the edict of the subway bidding of 2013, the subway is planned to coordinate with other related modalities: the Suburb Train, which currently operates with 13.5 kilometres (8.4 mi) of extension and 10 stations and must be replaced by the SkyRail Bahia monorail line, with the Blue Line and Red Line, which are transverse feeder roads in deployment to be covered by a Bus Rapid Transit System (BRT), with conventional Soteropolitan municipal bus lines, of Laurofreitenses municipal buses and with the metropolitan ones.

Colégio 2 de Julho, or C2J, is a private school located in Salvador, Brazil. Its courses go from pre-school to highschool, which in the Brazilian educational system is usually identified with ages from 4 to 17. Colégio 2 de Julho was founded in 1927 as the Escola Americana or American School; in 1938, its name was finally changed to 2 de Julho. The school is named after the independence date of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

Antonio Vieira College is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Salvador, Brazil. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1911, the school has about 5,000 students enrolled in grades one through eleven, and also gives night classes for youth and adults.

The Swimming Olympic Centre of Bahia, also referred to as Aquatic Sports Centre of SUDESB, is a sports facility aimed for the practice of swimming in the city of Salvador, capital of the Bahia state in Brazil. It is currently under construction and is expected to be completed by the second semester of 2015. Its total area is 12.195,67 square metres, and consists of two Olympic swimming pools (50m and 25m), 500 seats, dressing rooms, a car park and other dependencies.

The Estádio Fonte Nova, also known as Estádio Octávio Mangabeira, was a football stadium inaugurated on January 28, 1951 in Salvador, Bahia, with a maximum capacity of 66,080 people. The stadium was owned by the Bahia government, and was the home stadium of Esporte Clube Bahia and Esporte Clube Vitória. Its formal name honors Octávio Cavalcanti Mangabeira (1886–1960), a civil engineer, journalist, and former Bahia state governor from 1947 to 1954.After part of the upper terraces collapsed in 2007, killing 7 people and injuring several others, the government of Bahia announced the demolition of Fonte Nova and the construction of a new stadium, the Arena Fonte Nova, in the same place. The stadium was nicknamed Fonte Nova because it was located at Ladeira das Fontes das Pedras.