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Encyclopedia > Cabo de Santo Agostinho

Cabo de Santo Agostinho is 40 km south of the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Although the official Portuguese discovery of Brazil was by Pedro Cabral on April 21, 1500, some historians believe that Vicente Yáñez Pinzón already had set anchor in a bay in Cabo de Santo Agostinho on January 26, 1500. The municipality thus has a claim to being the birthplace of Brazil. Boa Viagem district. ... Flag of Pernambuco See other Brazilian States Capital Recife Largest City Recife Area 98,281 km² Population   - Total   - Density 7,918,344 80. ... Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1500 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (1460? - after 1523) was Spanish navigator, explorer, and conquistador. ... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1500 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Cabo de Santo Agostinho has both an industrial side that is centered around the Port of Suape and many beautiful tropical beaches and nature reserves. The best known beaches are Calhetas, Paraíso, and Gaibu. Especially pretty is Pedra do Xareu, where one can find the Recanto do Domingos at the far south end of the beach. Accommodations at beaches can range from inexpensive pousadas (bed and breakfast) to extremely expensive resorts. A bed and breakfast, often referred to as a B&B, is a lodging typically operated out of a large single family residence where guests can be accommodated at night in private bedrooms (which may or may not be equipped with private baths) and where breakfast, sometimes Continental and sometimes... Resorts combine a hotel and a variety of recreations, such as swimming pools A resort is a place used for relaxation or recreation. ...


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Cabo de Santo Agostinho, city of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil (497 words)
The Cabo de Santo Agostinho is at 41 km from Recife and join at the same time the biggest industrial pole of Pernambuco to a wonderfull scenery of beatiful beaches.
Cabo de Santo Agostinho it is part of the Development Region of MRR, wich covers also the municipal districts of Recife, Olinda, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Abreu e Lima, Paulista, Igarassu, Itapissuma, Itamaracá, Ipojuca, Camaragibe, São Lourenço da Mata, Araçoiaba and Moreno.
Cabo de Santo Agostinho it is full of ecological reserves, mangroves and some of the most talked beaches of the country, such as the Calhetas, Paraíso and Gaibu (picture).
Ipojuca, Porto de Galinhas, Muro Alto, Pernambuco (743 words)
Since there, the farmhands were able to migrate to the fertile and rich lands in massapê de Ipojuca; these lands are quite a lot promising to the growing of sugar cane, what caused a fast appearing of several sugar plantations in the region.
With two harbours - Suape and Porto de Galinhas - besides of the largest long and flat land along a river side of massapê of Northeast, Ipojuca was part of the triangled colonial commerce; Galinhas (Chickens) was given this name because was this way that people referred to slaves brought from África, during that period.
It's paradise alike beachs are known as one of the most beatiful spots of Northeast, with a distinction place to Porto de Galinhas (picture), considered one of the most beautiful beaches of brazil.
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