São Sebastião

São Sebastião is a port and resort city in the channel of the same name that separates Ilhabela (Beautiful Island) from the mainland of the State of São Paulo¹, Southeast Region, Brasil (Brazil). It is an important oil port² but is otherwise known for its 36 beaches. It has 77 thousand residents.³

External references

overview of the oil terminal at São Sebastião

Footnotes

1. Translates into English as Saint Paul.
2. Alastair Cooper, ed., The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.
3. world-gazetteer.com, accessed 12/2/2012.