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List Of Lighthouses In Brazil
This is a list of lighthouses in Brazil. They are located along the Atlantic coastline and islands of Brazil. These are named landfall lights, or those with a range of over twenty-five nautical miles. Lighthouses See also * Lists of lighthouses and lightvessels References External links Faróis da Costa Cearense Capitania dos Portos do Ceará, ''Marinha do Brasil''. Retrieved 8 June 2017 * {{South America topic, List of lighthouses in * Brazil Lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mar ... Lighthouses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa Cruz Cabrália
Santa Cruz Cabrália is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. Historical Sites See also * List of municipalities in Bahia References Municipalities in Bahia Populated coastal places in Bahia {{Bahia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Farol is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Paraná This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraná (PR), located in the South Region of Brazil. Paraná is divided into 399 municipalities, which are grouped into 39 microregions, which are grouped into 10 mesoregions. See also *G ... References Municipalities in Paraná {{ParanáBR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belmonte, Bahia
Belmonte is a municipality ''( município)'' in the Brazilian state of Bahia. It is located at 15º51'47" S, 38º52'58" W. It is 8 metres above sea level. In 2020 it had an estimated population of 23,437 inhabitants. The municipality covers a total area of 2016.85 km² and was founded in 1764. The municipality contains part of the Canavieiras Extractive Reserve The Canavieiras Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista de Canavieiras) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Location The Canavieiras Extractive Reserve is divided between the municipalities of Belmonte (2 ..., created in 2006. References Populated coastal places in Bahia 1764 establishments in the Portuguese Empire Municipalities in Bahia {{Bahia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belém
Belém (; Portuguese for Bethlehem; initially called Nossa Senhora de Belém do Grão-Pará, in English Our Lady of Bethlehem of Great Pará) often called Belém of Pará, is a Brazilian city, capital and largest city of the state of Pará in the country's north. It is the gateway to the Amazon River with a busy port, airport, and bus/coach station. Belém lies approximately 100 km upriver from the Atlantic Ocean, on the Pará River, which is part of the greater Amazon River system, separated from the larger part of the Amazon delta by ''Ilha de Marajó'' ( Marajo Island). With an estimated population of 1,499,641 people — or 2,491,052, considering its metropolitan area — it is the 11th most populous city in Brazil, as well as the 16th by economic relevance. It is the second largest in the North Region, second only to Manaus, in the state of Amazonas. Founded in 1616 by the Kingdom of Portugal, Belém was the first European colony on the Amazon but did not beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farol De Belem
Farol is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Paraná This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraná (PR), located in the South Region of Brazil. Paraná is divided into 399 municipalities, which are grouped into 39 microregions, which are grouped into 10 mesoregions. See also *G ... References Municipalities in Paraná {{ParanáBR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prado, Bahia
Prado is a municipality in the state of Bahia in the North-East region of Brazil. The municipality contains the Descobrimento National Park, a conservation unit of created in 1999. It also contains part of the Corumbau Marine Extractive Reserve Corumbau Marine Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Marinha do Corumbau) is a coastal marine extractive reserve in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The reserve was created in 2000 to help protect the traditional local fishing economy, which wa ..., a protected offshore fishing area of . See also * List of municipalities in Bahia References Populated coastal places in Bahia Municipalities in Bahia {{Bahia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Grande Do Sul
Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a state in the southern region of Brazil. It is the fifth-most-populous state and the ninth largest by area. Located in the southernmost part of the country, Rio Grande do Sul is bordered clockwise by Santa Catarina to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, the Uruguayan departments of Rocha, Treinta y Tres, Cerro Largo, Rivera and Artigas to the south and southwest, and the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones to the west and northwest. The capital and largest city is Porto Alegre. The state has the highest life expectancy in Brazil, and the crime rate is relatively low compared to the Brazilian national average. Despite the high standard of living, unemployment is still high in the state, as of 2017. The state has 5.4% of the Brazilian population and it is responsible for 6.6% of the Brazilian GDP. The state shares a gaucho culture with its neighbors Argentina and Uruguay. Befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
São José Do Norte
São José do Norte is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ..., Brazil. As of 2020, the estimated population was 27,721. See also * List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul References Populated coastal places in Rio Grande do Sul Municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul {{RioGrandedoSul-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Farol is a municipality in the state of Paraná in the Southern Region of Brazil. See also *List of municipalities in Paraná This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Paraná (PR), located in the South Region of Brazil. Paraná is divided into 399 municipalities, which are grouped into 39 microregions, which are grouped into 10 mesoregions. See also *G ... References Municipalities in Paraná {{ParanáBR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barra Rio Grande Lighthouse
Barra Rio Grande Lighthouse is an active lighthouse located on a sandy strip between the Lagoa dos Patos and the South Atlantic Ocean in the municipality of São José do Norte, Brazil. History The first lighthouse, a lantern atop the tower of the Commander of the Port, was established since 1 December 1820, but went out of order at the first storm. Since then a fire was lit in order to direct safely the ships to the harbour. In 1827 was asked to Pedro I of Brazil to rebuild the lighthouse, only on 2 August 1842 it was relit. In 1847 a new cylindrical prefabricated cast iron lighthouse, high, was commissioned in London and on 18 January 1852 was lit. At first the lantern was equipped with a catoptrics system replaced in 1886 by a 2nd order of Fresnel lens built by Barbier and Fenestre. The lighthouse was painted in red, then in dark red and at last with black and white horizontal bands. The lantern emits a white occulting light (Oc (6) W 21 seconds) visible up to . The lighthou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baía Formosa
Baía Formosa (lit. "beautiful bay") is the easternmost city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte and the first coastal city (going south-north) of that state, lying near the border with Paraíba. The municipality contains the Mata da Estrela Private Natural Heritage Reserve. Notable people *Ítalo Ferreira Ítalo Ferreira (born May 6, 1994) is a Brazilian professional surfer hailing from a small community of Baía Formosa, in Rio Grande do Norte on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Ferreira is one of the most explosive surfers in the world, and ..., world champion surfer References Populated places established in 1958 Populated coastal places in Rio Grande do Norte 1958 establishments in Brazil Municipalities in Rio Grande do Norte {{RioGrandedoNorte-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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