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Porto Seguro
Bahiacity
Porto Seguro
Total population
168,326
Founded
1534
Demographic figures from IBGE. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Sister cities
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Overview
Porto Seguro, is a city located in the far south of Bahia, Brazil. The city has an estimated population of 168,326, covers 2,287 square kilometres (883 mi2), and has a population density of 52.7 residents per square kilometer. The area that includes Porto Seguro and neighbouring Santa Cruz Cabrália and Eunápolis holds a distinctive place in Brazilian history: in 1500 it was the first landing point of Portuguese navigators, principally Pedro Álvares Cabral.
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Geography
The climate in Porto Seguro is warm, pleasant, and partly cloudy. Over the course of the year, the temperature typically varies from 19 °C lows (67 °F) to 29C highs (84 °F) and is rarely below 18 °C (65 °F) or above 31 °C (88 °F). The temperature in Porto Seguro varies so little throughout the year that it is not entirely meaningful to discuss hot and cold seasons. Porto Seguro is divided into five districts *Porto Seguro (city seat); *Arraial d'Ajuda; *Caraíva *Trancoso *Vale Verde The municipality contains the Pau-Brasil Ecological Station, a fully protected conservation unit created in 1997 to protect a fragment of Atlantic Forest, and specifically to protect Brazil wood (Pau Brasil, Caesalpinia echinata). It contains the Rio dos Frades Wildlife Refuge, created in 2007 to protect the mouth of the Frades River. The municipality also contains part of the Corumbau Marine Extractive Reserve, a protected offshore fishing area of .
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Geography
Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.
Climate
Air quality
Walkability
Amenities nearby
Wildlife & biodiversity
Earthquake history
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Sights & places nearby
Notable people from here
People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.
Nearby places in Bahia
- Arraial d'Ajuda2.9 mi away · pop. 16,997
- Mogiquiçaba25.8 mi away
- Caraíva25.9 mi away
- Cumuruxatiba46.9 mi away
- Ouricana49.8 mi away
- Gurupá Mirim63.5 mi away
- Poxim do Sul68.5 mi away
- Buranhém68.8 mi away
- Alcobaça75 mi away · pop. 24,530
- Comandatuba75.4 mi away
- Jucuruçu77.5 mi away · pop. 9,655
- Pau Brasil78.1 mi away · pop. 9,370
Geography & sun
Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
Nearby airports
Public attention
Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.
Books about Porto Seguro
Search results from Open Library.
Recent natural events nearby
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Recently spotted species
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Official Identifiers
IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- IBGE code
- 2925303
- UF
- BA
- Mesorregião
- Sul Baiano
- Microrregião
- Porto Seguro
servicodados.ibge.gov.br
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Open Library
- • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image
- • IBGE — Brazilian national statistics, via servicodados.ibge.gov.br (official municipal code, UF, mesorregião, microrregião, region)
- • IBGE — Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics — servicodados.ibge.gov.br