"Lagoa" is "Lagoon", and this is the nearby freshwater Lagoa de Abaeté ("Abaeté" is a Portuguese surname).  The waters are surrounded by sands as white as snow and are believed by candomblé adepts here in Salvador to be the home of of the goddess Oxum.

Oxum, Goddess of Sweet Water

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