List of the largest sea bays in Brazil

The list of the largest sea bays in Brazil includes the sea bays of Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean .

The guide value for the list should be an area of 100 km ² or more. The largest bays are: Baía de São Marcos with 2025 km ² in the state of Maranhão , Baía de Todos os Santos, known in German as All Saints Bay , with 1233 km ² in the state of Bahia and the Baía de Paranaguá with 612 km ² in the state of Paraná . The Baía de Guanabara of Rio de Janeiro has an area of around 383 km ² .

Sea bays

Surname	State	Remarks
All Saints Bay	Bahia	-12.878055555556 -38.601944444444 Area: 1233 km ² , average depth 9.8 m. Main tributaries into the bay are the Rio Jaguaripe , Rio Paraguaçu, and Rio Subaé . Since November 1, 1501, the bay has been one of the oldest settlement areas of European colonization in Brazil, the inland around the bay, the Recôncavo baiano, is shaped by Afro-Brazilian culture . The largest islands are the Ilha dos Frades , Ilha da Maré and Ilha Cajaiba . Under-bays are : Baía de Aratu in the northern part, area: 24.5 km ²Baía do Iguape in the western part, area: 76.1 km ² -12.784444444444 -38.461666666667 -12.75 -38.883333333333
Baía de Babitonga	Santa Catarina	-26.212222222222 -48.628333333333Area: around 160 km ² The bay is T-shaped. The mangrove forests south of the city of Joinville and the fauna are protected.
Bay of Camamu	Bahia	-13.876666666667 -38.998055555556
Baía das Canárias	Piauí
Baía do Capim	Maranhão
Baía do Cararé	Maranhão
Baía do Cumã	Maranhão
Bay of Golfinhos	Pernambuco ( Fernando de Noronha )	-3.8608333333333 -32.451944444444 Width: around 1.2 km, depth: up to 300 m. Known for spinner dolphins . Strictly protected access.
Baía do Guajará	Pará
Guanabara Bay (Baía de Guanabara)	Rio de Janeiro	-3.8608333333333 -32.451944444444 Area: 381 km ² , depth: up to 50 m. The formerly extensive mangrove forests have been reduced to around 65 km ² in nature reserves. Around 70% of the wastewater from the more than 10 million residents, especially from Rio de Janeiro, flows untreated into the bay. International efforts to improve environmental conditions on the occasion of the 2016 Summer Olympics have so far not shown any success. The largest of the approximately 130 islands and islets is the Ilha do Governador , on which around 450,000 people live; The Ilha de Paquetá is also popular .
Baía de Guaratuba	Paraná
Baía da Ilha Grande	Rio de Janeiro	-23.104722222222 -44.279722222222 The largest of the islands is Ilha Grande .
Baía do Iriri Mirim	Maranhão
Baía das Laranjeiras	Paraná
Baía dos Lençóis	Maranhão
Bay of Mangunça	Maranhão
Baía do Maracaçume	Maranhão
Baía da Mutuoca	Maranhão
Baía Norte	Santa Catarina , ( Ilha de Santa Catarina )
Baía de Paranaguá	Paraná
Baía do Pontal	Bahia
Baía dos Porcos ( Bay of Pigs)	Pernambuco ( Fernando de Noronha )
Baía do Sancho	Pernambuco ( Fernando de Noronha )
Bay of Santo Antônio	Pernambuco ( Fernando de Noronha )
Baía de Sao José	Maranhão
Baía de São Marcos	Maranhão	-2.6941666666667 -44.471388888889 Area: 2025 km ²
Bay of Sepetiba	Rio de Janeiro	-22.993333333333 -43.754166666667 Origin: 3500 years ago; Area: 520 km²; Circumference 170.5 km; greatest width north / south 12.5 km, west / east 25 km; Volume: 3.5 × 10 ⁹ m³; the inland coast includes 55 beaches; the southern part, facing the Atlantic Ocean, is connected to the Restinga de Marambaia by an isthmus , the western end is formed by a chain of islands, in total there are 49 islands and islets in the Sepetiba, the most important of which are: Itacurussá, Madeira, Jaguanum, Guaíba , Furtada, Martins, Cutiatá-Acú, Vigia Grande, Bonita, Saracura and Jardins. The Sepetiba Bay is part of the around 2711 km² environmental region Macrorregião Ambiental 2.
Baía Sueste	Pernambuco ( Fernando de Noronha )
Baía Sul	Santa Catarina , ( Ilha de Santa Catarina )
Baía do Tromaí	Maranhão
Baía de Turiaçu	Maranhão
Bay of Vitória	Espírito Santo
Rio Pará	Pará	The deeply inland sea bay between the Amazon estuary and the estuary of the Rio Tocantins further southeast is elongated, about 4-20 kilometers wide and about 180 kilometers long. It originated around the middle Holocene .

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Mauro Cirano, Guilherme Camargo Lessa: Oceanographic characteristics of Baía de Todos os Santos, Brazil. In: Revista Brasileira de Geofísica , Volume 25, 2007, Issue 4, pp. 363-387. ISSN 0102-261X . (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved September 1, 2015.
↑ Vanessa Hatje, Jailson B. de Andrade (ed.): Baía de Todos os Santos. Aspectos oceanográficos. Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 2009, ISBN 978-85-232-0597-3 , pp. 109-114 (here p. 109). Retrieved September 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
↑ Vanessa Hatje, Jailson B. de Andrade (ed.): Baía de Todos os Santos. Aspectos oceanográficos. Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 2009, ISBN 978-85-232-0597-3 , p. 102. Retrieved September 18, 2015 (Portuguese).
↑ Alexandre Maimoni Mazzer, Mônica Lopes Gonçalves; Aspectos geomorfológicos da Baía da Babitonga, Santa Catarina, Brasil: Caracterização morfométrica. In: Revista Brasileira de Geomorfologia , Volume 12, 2011, No. 3, pp. 115–120 (here p. 115). Retrieved September 19, 2015 (Portuguese).
^ Reserva da Babitonga. SOLAMAC 2005. Retrieved September 19, 2015 (Portuguese).
↑ Silvio Jablonski, Alexandre de Freitas Azevedo, Luiz Henrique Arantes Moreira: Fisheries and Conflicts in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology , Volume 49, 2006, pp. 79-81. ISSN 1516-8913 . (PDF; 258 kB). Retrieved September 1, 2015.
↑ SEMADS: Bacias Hidrográficas e Recursos Hídricos da Macrorregião - Bacia da Baía de Sepetiba. SEMADS, Rio de Janeiro 2001, ISBN 85-87206-07-9 (Portuguese), accessed August 24, 2015.
↑ Dilce de Fátima Rossetti, Márcio M. Valeriano: Applying SRTM topographic data to characterize a Quaternary paleovalley in northern Brazil. In: Anais XIII Simposio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto ,. Florianopolis, Brasil, 2007, INPE, pp. 2125-2132. (PDF; 1.0 MB.)

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[1] Mauro Cirano, Guilherme Camargo Lessa: Oceanographic characteristics of Baía de Todos os Santos, Brazil. In: Revista Brasileira de Geofísica , Volume 25, 2007, Issue 4, pp. 363-387. ISSN 0102-261X . (PDF; 1.2 MB). Retrieved September 1, 2015.

[2] Vanessa Hatje, Jailson B. de Andrade (ed.): Baía de Todos os Santos. Aspectos oceanográficos. Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 2009, ISBN 978-85-232-0597-3 , pp. 109-114 (here p. 109). Retrieved September 18, 2015 (Portuguese).

[3] Vanessa Hatje, Jailson B. de Andrade (ed.): Baía de Todos os Santos. Aspectos oceanográficos. Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador 2009, ISBN 978-85-232-0597-3 , p. 102. Retrieved September 18, 2015 (Portuguese).

[4] Alexandre Maimoni Mazzer, Mônica Lopes Gonçalves; Aspectos geomorfológicos da Baía da Babitonga, Santa Catarina, Brasil: Caracterização morfométrica. In: Revista Brasileira de Geomorfologia , Volume 12, 2011, No. 3, pp. 115–120 (here p. 115). Retrieved September 19, 2015 (Portuguese).

[5] Reserva da Babitonga. SOLAMAC 2005. Retrieved September 19, 2015 (Portuguese).

[6] Silvio Jablonski, Alexandre de Freitas Azevedo, Luiz Henrique Arantes Moreira: Fisheries and Conflicts in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology , Volume 49, 2006, pp. 79-81. ISSN 1516-8913 . (PDF; 258 kB). Retrieved September 1, 2015.

[7] SEMADS: Bacias Hidrográficas e Recursos Hídricos da Macrorregião - Bacia da Baía de Sepetiba. SEMADS, Rio de Janeiro 2001, ISBN 85-87206-07-9 (Portuguese), accessed August 24, 2015.

[8] Dilce de Fátima Rossetti, Márcio M. Valeriano: Applying SRTM topographic data to characterize a Quaternary paleovalley in northern Brazil. In: Anais XIII Simposio Brasileiro de Sensoriamento Remoto ,. Florianopolis, Brasil, 2007, INPE, pp. 2125-2132. (PDF; 1.0 MB.)