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'Santos' () is a municipality in the São Paulo state of Brazil, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas. It is partially located on the island of São Vicente which harbors both the city of Santos and the city of São Vicente, and partially on the mainland. It is the main city in the metropolitan region of Baixada Santista. As of 2006, its population was estimated at 418,375. Santos has the biggest seaport in Latin America, which traded over 72 million tons in 2006; is a significant tourist centre; has large industrial complexes and shipping centres, which handle a large portion of the world's coffee exports; as well as a number of other Brazilian exports including steel, oil, cars, oranges, bananas and cotton. The city also displays the Coffee Museum, where, once, coffee prices were negotiated; and a football memorial, dedicated to the city's greatest players, amongst which is Pelé.
Its beach's garden, 5.335 Km length, figures in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest beach front garden.
Santos is home for the famous football club Santos FC, where Pelé has played.
In 1899, Santos was the point of entry for the bubonic plague into Brazil.^[2] In October 2006, light crude oil was discovered off the coast in the Santos basin.
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On September 2, 2007, in Brazil, 84 surfers caught the same wave (from Australia, South Africa, Portugal, Britain and the US, to beat the former record of 73 surfers on a wave). But while 300 turned up in Cornwall and Capetown, the Brazilian waxheads won. With only 120 people, surfers in Santos, south-east of Sao Paulo, smashed the South African record.^[3]

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Sister Cities

★ Shimonoseki

★ Nagasaki

★ Trieste

★ Coimbra

★ Funchal

★ Ansião

★ Arouca

★ Ushuaia

★ Havana

★ Taizhou

★ Ningbo

★ Constanţa

★ Ulsan

★ Colón

References

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2. Small rodents fleas from the bubonic plague focus located in the Serra dos Órgãos Mountain Range, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil., de Carvalho R, Serra-Freire N, Linardi P, de Almeida A, da Costa J, , , Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz, 2001
3. SMH, Record breakers: Ready, set - now pucker up for Bosnia

External links

★ Santos' official home page

★ Port of Santos