Santos

Below São Paulo, and also in S&atiled;o Paulo¹ State, is Brazil's chief port, Santos,² which handles a great portion of the nation's imports and exports. The city is partly located on São Vicente Island. There are canals within the city Just inland from it is the notoriously polluted industrial zone nicknamed the Valley of Death. There are 419 thousand people in the city proper and 1.908 million in the metropolitan area.³ The tallest building is the 24 story Clube XV Ibis Hotel, which also incudes offices.⁴ Santos is traditionally an important coffee port, and today is also an important grain port.⁵

External references

overview of the port of Santos

Historical Maps

Footnotes

1. Translated into English as 'Saint Paul.'
2. Translates into English as 'Saints.'
3. world-gazetteer.com, accessed 12/2/2012.
4. emporis.com, accessed 12/29/2012.
5. The grain port status is from Alastair Cooper, ed., The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.