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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.
1550s accounts–based 1660s French map of Guanabara Bay. France Antarctique (formerly also spelled France antartique) was a French colony in Rio de Janeiro, in modern-day Brazil, which existed between 1555 and 1567, and had control over the coast from Rio de Janeiro to Cabo Frio.
Cape Orange is the northernmost point of the Brazilian state of Amapá. It is located in an area of tidal marshland protected in Cabo Orange National Park . In Brazil, both Cape Orange and the nearby mouth of the Oyapock River are often erroneously quoted as being the country's northernmost point, and until the mid- to late 20th century this ...
Gruta Casa de Pedra (SP-009) is a cave located in the karstic region of the Alto Ribeira Tourist State Park, between the municipalities of Apiaí and Iporanga, to the south of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. [1] It is 2,930 meters long and features the largest cave mouth in the world, measuring 172 meters high. [2]
The name means coral bay, The beach has natural reefs and gentle waves. Services are restricted to a handful of bars and restaurants. Gaibu beach High waves and a long 3-km stretch of sand. The beach is good for swimming but bathers should beware of deep areas. At high tides it is good for surfing. The beach has several hotels, hostels, bars ...
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 ...
Brazil portal; Coastline of Brazil; Geography of Brazil; Lake island; List of islands by area; List of islands by highest point; List of islands by population; List of islands in the Atlantic Ocean; List of islands of South America; Outline of Brazil
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]