Pindobaçu, in the north of Bahia, is known as the emerald capital. The municipality, with a population of around 19,000, lies in the Bahian hinterland and is home to part of the Serra da Carnaíba mountain range, where emerald mining began in the 1960s and which remains the town’s main […]
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