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See also Agbodrafo for the city in Togo formerly known as Porto Seguro.
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Porto Seguro is a municipality in the Brazilian state of Bahia. It is the site where the Portuguese explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral first set foot on Brazilian soil on April 22, 1500. It was the busiest port of the developing Portuguese colonies from 1500 into the early 1800s and is now a major tourist destination.
Location
Porto Seguro is located on the Atlantic coast at a midway point between Salvador and Vitória. It is 707 km. south of Salvador and 613 km. north of Vitória. It is 62 km. east of the connection with the important BR-101 highway at Eunápolis.
Airport
An international airport was completed in 1993, and today Porto Seguro is an international tourist destination known for its busy nightlife, culture, history, ecological attractions and a good infrastructure to attend the demand for businesses and events. International chain hotels, resorts, little inns and hotels from 3 to 5 stars. The airport receives direct flights from Salvador, São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. The airlines serving the city are Varig, Tam, Gol, and Ocean Air, besides the charters flights arriving from Europe: Portugal, Amsterdam, Italy and France. The city is far away from the major cities around 40 minutes from Salvador and 1:30 from São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
Tourism
The region is also noted for its many attractive beaches and vestiges of its colonial past. There are still vestiges of the Atlantic Tropical Forest nearby. There are also a number of beach-side dance floors, playing Bahia's popular music, known as "Axe". Axe is an electrifying rhythm similar to samba. Another attraction in the city is the "Passarela do Alcool" (Alcohol Passway) where you will be fought over to try one of the local alcohol-based drinks.
Tourism has expanded fast in recent years and there is highly visible growth in Porto Seguro. What was once a small town of fewer than 10,000 people in the 1970s has become a city of over 100,000 people. One suburb on the southern bank of the Buranhem River, Arraial d'Ajuda, has grown from approximately 900 people in 1990 to 11,411 in 2005.
Economic information
The economy is based on services, tourism, light transformation industries, fishing, government employment, agriculture, and cattle raising.
In 2003 there were 66,513 head of cattle, of which 8,647 were milk cows. The main agricultural products were pineapple, sugarcane, manioc, banana, rubber (19.8 km² in 2003), cacau (6.4 km²), coffee, coconut (19.95 km²), guava, oranges, lemons, papaya (10 km²), passion fruit, and pepper.
Trancoso is a small village, 15 miles south of Porto Seguro, with attractive beaches.
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