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Rio de Janeiro is the largest coastal city in Brazil. The coastline of Brazil measures 7,491 km, [1] [a] making it the 16th longest national coastline in the world. The coastline touches exclusively the Atlantic Ocean. Brazil's coastline has many geographical features such as islands, reefs, bays, and its 2,095 beaches. [2] [3] [4]
Suape beach. Cabo de Santo Agostinho (English: Cape of St. Augustine) is a 448 square kilometer sized municipality located 35 kilometers south of the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Cape São Roque is the "point" on the bend of the Brazilian mainland coast that is closest to the continent of Africa. [ 1 ] The cape was first officially visited by European navigators in 1501, in the 1501–1502 Portuguese mapping expedition led by André Gonçalves and Amerigo Vespucci , who named the spot after the saint of the day, Saint ...
The Tupinambá cape, mantle, or cloak is a 17th-century feathered cape. It was made by the Tupinambás, an indigenous tribe of the Tupi people, who inhabited modern-day Brazil. It is made of bird feathers and vegetable fibres. The cape is held in the collections of the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels.
Macapá has a few roads to other cities in Brazil but is mainly connected to the rest of the country by air and sea. Macapá is located 345 kilometres (214 mi) from Belém, but the cities are separated by the large inland island of Marajó and have no direct highway connections; the city is accessible only by boat or airplane. [5]
Brazil is nominally self-sufficient in crude oil [5] and controlled the world's 14th largest reserves in 2018, [6] most of which are extracted at sea. The Atlantic Ocean under Brazilian jurisdiction has two prevailing surface currents, Brazil and North Brazil. Their warm, nutrient-poor waters are home to a diverse fauna, although each species ...
This is a list of the extreme points of Brazil. Latitude and longitude. The following points are farther north, south, east or west than any other location.
Guanabara Bay is the second largest bay in area in Brazil (after the All Saints' Bay), at 412 square kilometres (159 sq mi), with a perimeter of 143 kilometres (89 mi). Guanabara Bay is 31 kilometres (19 mi) long and 28 kilometres (17 mi) wide at its maximum.