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| Santos | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | State | São Paulo | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Area: | 281 km² | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Population: | 437 000 (Estimate: 07/2003) Metropolitan Area (Baixada Santista 1.6 million, *) | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Height: | 2 m above sea level | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Postcode (CEP): | 11100-000 | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Geographic location: | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Address of the local government: | Prefeitura Municipal de Santos Secretaria da Cidadania Praça Mauá, s/nº- 4º andar Centro - Santos | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Website: | www.santos.sp.gov.br | - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" | Contact: | - | Map | - |
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- For the Australian oil company, see Santos Limited; for the football team, see Santos Futebol Clube.
Santos is a municipality in the São Paulo state of Brazil, founded in 1543. It is partially located on the island of São Vicente which harbors both the city of Santos and the city of São Vicente, and partially on the mainland. It's the main city in the metropolitan region of Baixada Santista. As of 2003, its population was approximately 437,000. Santos has the biggest seaport in Latin America; is a significant tourist centre; has large industrial complexes and shipping centres, which handle a large portion of the world's coffee exports; as well as a number of other Brazilian exports including oranges, bananas and cotton. The city also displays the Coffee Museum, where, once, coffee prices were negotiated; the world's longest beach gardens (about 7.3 km); and a football memorial, dedicated to the city's greatest players, amongst which is Pelé.
In 1899, Santos was the point of entry for the bubonic plague into Brazil.
Reference
de Carvalho, Raimundo Wilson; Serra-Freire, Nicolau Maués; Linardi, Pedro Marcos; de Almeida, Adilson Benedito; and da Costa, Jeronimo Nunes (2001). Small Rodents Fleas from the Bubonic Plague Focus Located in the Serra dos Órgãos Mountain Range, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 96(5), 603-609. PMID 11500756.
External links
- Santos' official home page (In Portuguese)
- Port of Santos (in English)
- Postais Antigos do Brasil Portuguese and English
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