Bahia Blanca
a city of Argentina, Buenos Aires, about 450 miles S. W. of the city of that name. It is well built, having good streets and many handsome public public buildings. It is an important railway center and has an excellent harbor. The leading exports are wool and grain. The city is the principal naval base of Argentina. Pop. about 75,000.
BAHIA HONDA (bä-ē'a on'dä), a seaport of Cuba, in the province of Pinar del Rio, on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and and lying on a small bay, bearing the same name. The town and bay are about 50 miles W. of Havana, being commanded by a small fort. There are mines of coal and copper in the vicinity.
A short distance to the S. are the sulphur springs of Aguacate. Pop. about 1,500.
BAIÆ (bi'ē), an ancient Roman watering-place on the coast of Campania, 10 miles W. of Naples. Many of the wealthy Romans had country houses at Baiæ, which Horace preferred to all other places. Ruins of temples, baths, and villas still attract the attention of archæologists.