Vitória

Vitória,¹ the capital of Espirito Santo² State, Brasil (Brazil) is on an island at the mouth of a small river and dates from the mid-16th century. It derives its importance from the Vitória-Minas railway which brings iron ore, coffee and timber east from the interior. There are 335 thousand people in the city proper and 1.726 million in the metropolitan area.³ The tallest building is the 21 story Isla Bonita,⁴ a residential condominium.⁵ The ports of Tubarão⁶ and Point Ubu are major ore ports.⁷

External references

overview of Vitória

Historical Maps

Footnotes

1. Translated into English: 'Victory.'
2. Translated into English: 'Holy Spirit,' one of the three forms of the Christian god.
3. world-gazetteer.com, accessed 12/2/2012.
4. Could be translated as 'pretty island.'
5. emporis.com, accessed 12/29/2012.
6. Translates as 'shark.'
7. Alastair Cooper, ed., The Times Atlas of the Oceans (Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1983), "commodity loading ports" map.