Santos

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Município da Estância Balneária de Santos
"Terra da Caridade e da Liberdade"
Santos
Image montage of Santos
Image montage of Santos
Santos (Brazil)
Santos
Santos
Coordinates 23 ° 58 ′  S , 46 ° 20 ′  W Coordinates: 23 ° 58 ′  S , 46 ° 20 ′  W
Location of the municipality in the state of São Paulo
Location of the municipality in the state of São Paulo
Symbols
coat of arms
coat of arms
flag
flag
Motto
"Patriam Charitatem Et libertatem Docui"
I have the home charity and freedom taught
founding 26th January 1546 (age 474)Template: Infobox location in Brazil / maintenance
Basic data
Country Brazil
State São Paulo
ISO 3166-2 BR-SP
height 2 m
Waters South Atlantic
climate tropical, Af
surface 281 km²
Residents 419,400 (2010)
density 1,492.4  Ew. / km²
estimate 433,311 (July 1, 2019)
Parish code IBGE : 3548500
Post Code 11013-000
Telephone code (+55)  13
Time zone UTC −3
Website santos.sp (Brazilian Portuguese)
politics
City Prefect Paulo Alexandre Barbosa (2017-2020)
Political party PSDB
Culture
Patron saint Our Lady of Montserrat
economy
GDP 21,954,557  thousand R $
50,545 R $ per person 
(2016)
HDI 0.840 (high) (2010)

Santos , officially Portuguese Município da Estância Balneária de Santos , is the most important port city in Latin America . It is located on the coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo . The city is the administrative seat of the metropolitan area of Baixada Santista and is the symbolic capital of the state for one day every June 13th of the year. In addition, Santos has the official status of a spa, an Estância Balneária . Santos had 407,506 inhabitants (2010) on an area of ​​280 km², which corresponds to a population density of 1,455 people per square kilometer. In 2019 an estimated 433,311 people lived in Santos. Almost 40 km² of the city, including the city center, are on the island of São Vicente .

The port of Santos is the largest port in Latin America in terms of cargo handling.

port

The port of Santos is the largest seaport in Brazil. Approx. 40% of all sea freight traffic in Brazil passes through this port. Among other things, this port is the largest container port on the South American continent. There are a number of private container terminal operators. In addition to the terminals of the Brazilian companies SBSA Santos Brasil, Libra, Alemoa and Rodrimar, there are various new container terminals, such as BTP Brasil Terminal Portuário and others, which are being built and operated with capital from international logistics groups. There are also various systems for loading special goods such as fruit juice concentrate, soy grain, petroleum and other products. Port transshipment was privatized at the end of the 1990s and today the former state operating company CODESP ( Companhia de Docas do Estado S.Paulo ) as the port authority only has overall supervision.

  • TECON Santos is the largest container terminal in South America

  • Hamburg-Süd container at the TECON container terminal

climate

The climate of Santos is tropical, in general it is hotter and rainier in summer than in winter. Both seasons, however, often have strong temperature fluctuations. However, in winter the nights rarely get colder than 10 ° C.

The highest temperature was measured in September 1997 at 41 ° C. On August 2, 1955, the lowest temperature was recorded at 4.3 ° C. Allegedly there was even frost that day in the Santos area, but there are no official records to confirm this.

religion

Santos is the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Santos .

Attractions

  • The coffee museum in the building of the former coffee exchange ( Bolsa Official de Café ) in the city center offers an overview of the history of the city and coffee cultivation in the region.
  • The mountain Monte Serrat allows visitors to take a look at the island, the most important area is on the Santos. There are two ways to get to the top of the mountain: either climb 415 steps or use the funicular . On the summit is the church of Nossa Senhora do Monte Serrat , the former casino and a small canteen.
  • The city aquarium is very famous in Brazil and has more than 70 species of fish. It was founded in 1945 and expanded in 2010, which resulted in improvements for the visitors and the animals. It is located on Avenida Bartolomeu de Gusmão / Praça Vereador Luiz La Scalla.

Construction errors of the construction boom of the 1940s to 1970s led to a new attraction with a crooked skyscraper skyline. Around 90 buildings were placed without sufficient foundations on former mangrove plots with a sandy soil about seven meters deep and a clay soil about 30 to 40 meters deep underneath, which is exposed to soil mechanical consolidation . At a slope of about 5 degrees, the buildings look correspondingly sloping from the beach.

Sports

The city is home to two-time soccer World Cup winners FC Santos . The club museum , which is located in the Urbano Caldeira stadium, usually called Vila Belmiro , has many memorabilia, particularly from the heyday of the club with its star player Pelé .

The ATP Challenger Santos tennis tournament has been held in the city since 2011 .

Town twinning

Source:

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Web links

Commons : Santos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Climate Santos: average temperature, weather by month, Santos weather averages - Climate-Data.org. In: de.climate-data.org. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c IBGE : Cidades @ São Paulo: Santos. Retrieved August 29, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ Paulo Alexandre Barbosa 45 (Prefeito). In: todapolitica.com. Eleições 2016, accessed September 8, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ↑ British television series The World's Greatest Design Flaws , 2015.
  5. ↑ Prédios Tortos ( Memento of March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), on the website of the city prefecture. (Web archive accessed December 5, 2018, Brazilian Portuguese).
  6. ↑ Altair Santos: Prédios tortos de Santos: como eles estão hoje? In: www.cimentoitambe.com.br. Cimento Itambé, June 24, 2015, accessed December 5, 2018 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  7. ↑ Prefeitura Municipal de Santos: "Relações Internacionais: Cidades-Irmãs" ( Memento of April 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

To the Baixada Santista

Municipalities of the metropolitan area of ​​Baixada Santista
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