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Basic information

Climate
The climate here is hot, tropical and humid, with temperatures averaging 24,4º C, with a minimum temperature of 20,9º C and a maximum temperature of 30,6º C. Rainfall is more frequent from March to May.

Events

Carnival
Carnival parties here are said to be the best in Bahia, second only to the street parties of that State’s capital town, Salvador. “Electric Trios” (trucks carrying sound systems and live bands), dancing “blocos” and “cordões” (street dancing groups) drag thousands of happy tourists along the Passarela do Álcool Passageway (the traditional local avenue) and to the beach bars.

City facts

Porto Seguro
State: Bahia
Region: Northeast
Population: 95,665 inhabitants
Area Code: (73)

Distances
Salvador: 730 km
Belo Horizonte: 952 km
Brasilia: 1.669 km
Rio de Janeiro: 1.120 km
Sao Paulo: 1.481 km
Vitória: 602 km

Accommodation / Restaurants

The town offers a wide range of options for lodging, from luxurious hotels to cheaper, seaside inns.
Visitors will find the delicious typical food from Bahia at the town’s restaurants, including many seafood dishes. There are also sophisticated restaurants serving French, Japanese, Italian and other international food.
For more information on Porto Seguro please visit websites below:
http://www.bahia.com.br
http://www.portoseguroba.com

How to get there

By Plane: The Porto Seguro Airport is the third largest airport in the Brazilian Northeastern region in terms of number of passengers. Many national and international companies offer regular lines and daily flights to Porto Seguro.

By Bus/Car: It is 730 km away from Salvador. Visitors must take the BR-101 federal highway, in the direction of the towns of Itabuna, Itagimirim, Paraíso, following it until they reach the town of Eunápolis. From this town, it is necessary to take BR-367 federal highway and drive more than 65 km to downtown Porto Seguro. Also, from Salvador, visitors must take the BR-324 federal highway until the junction with the BR-101 federal highway and proceed to Eunápolis (km 658), proceeding for another 65 km on the BR-367 federal highway to Porto Seguro.
By Boat/Cruise: for the Ferryboat System, drive along the BA-001 and the BR-101 highways until Eunápolis (546 km), proceeding for another 65 km on the BR-367 federal highway to Porto Seguro. At the port of Porto Seguro, cruise ships on domestic and international tours make a stop in the town (check tourism agencies).

Services

Town Tourism Secretariat
Add.: Visconde de Porto Seguro Square
Tel: +55 (73) 288-4124

International Airport (Cidade Alta area)
Tel: +55 (73) 288-2010 / 288-3131 / 288-3327 / 288-2350

Coach Station
Tel: +55 (73) 288-1039

Bank branches and car rentals
The town offers a good tourism infrastructure, with a large variety of bank branches and more than one hundred car rental points.

Related links

The Tourism Secretariat of the Town of Porto Seguro
http://www.portosegurotur.com.br

The Discovery Coast Portal
http://www.portosegurotur.com.br

Arraial D´Ajuda
www.arraial-dajuda.com.br

Attractions

Night Leisure
The Passarela do Álcool Passageway is a must for all visitors. There, visitors will find the famous "Capeta” drink, can have dinner with live music and buy gifts made in the region; or visitors may go to Capitania dos Peixes, on Pacu Island, where they will find ecological landscapes and an assorted variety of music genres and ambiences, near giant aquariums.

Historical Downtown Area
The historical site in the Cidade Alta area is a National Heritage Monument put under government trust by a Federal Decree, since 1973. It was one of the first towns in Brazil and played an important role during the first years of European colonisation. It includes three churches and around 40 buildings (among private residential houses and public institutions), restored by the State Government for the 500th anniversary celebration of Brazilian “discovery”. At night, the whole area is bathed by a special lighting system, offering a beautiful view.

Monte Pascoal National Park
Created in 1961 to preserve the place where Brazil was “discovered” by Portuguese navigators. It includes swamp areas, salt marshes, river marshes and a coastline around the rocky, high and rounded hill, considered the first point of land to be seen by the Portuguese traveller Pedro Álvares Cabral and his crew. It extends over an area of 14,480 hectares, including the protected land of Pataxó indigenous tribe. Besides its historical importance, it also offers protection to one of the last stretches of Atlantic Forest in the Northeastern area of Brazil. The area is aimed at preserving valuable woods such as brazilwood, and still hosts many species of animals threatened by extinction, such as “collar sloth”, “black burs”, among others.

Recife de Fora Sea Park
It was the first town-owned park in Brazil. During low tide, visitors can view a wide range of coral reefs, fish and many sea species. Tours are available on schooners.


Glória Hillock
Here, visitors find the ruins of what many consider to be the São Francisco Church, where Ynaiá -- an Indian woman who died for the love of a crewmember of Portuguese navigator Gonçalo Coelho’s fleet -- was buried. People say the São Francisco Church, in baroque style, was the first one built in Brazil, probably in 1504, and whose ruins date to 1730.

The Nossa Senhora da Penha Matrix Church
Located on Pero de Campos Tourinho Square, in Cidade Alta, it was built at the end of the 18th century. It comprises an aisle, a main chapel, a sacristy and a bell tower.

Jaqueira Indigenous Protection Reservation
A huge jackfruit tree trunk, tumbled down by nature itself, portrays the return to one’s origins and acts as a historical and cultural reference to honour the ancestral fathers and mothers of Pataxó families who recently moved into this 827-hectare protected Indian area. Their huts, spread around original Atlantic Forest woods, maintain their original formats, giving visitors the impression of being back 500 years in time, to pre-Colombian Brazil.

Pirata Island
It is considered one of the most sophisticated aquarium complexes in South America. Pirata Island is a thematic leisure centre combining nightlife infrastructure and environmental and sea biodiversity protection, with giant aquariums. It is located on Pacuio Island, on Buranhém River, and access is possible exclusively by boat.

The “Discovery” Outdoors Museum
An outdoors, natural museum, whose “art galleries” are its beaches, valleys and natural trails and whose “collection” is a set of geographical formations and traditional villages, set out as art works in permanent exhibition, engraved in very ancient media, which are spread along the 130-km length of Bahia’s historical southern coastline.

Terravista Golf Course
The golf course, designed by architect Dan Blankenship, offers 18 holes and demanded US$ 4 million in investment to be built. The project follows the most sophisticated and up to date trends in golf course building in the world today, as is the case in California, USA, and in Algarve, Portugal – all of which appear very similar in terms of weather and geographical conditions, for all three golf courses face the sea.


Beaches

Porto Seguro offers dozens of beaches to please all tastes and styles.

Those who are looking for fun, should go directly to Rio dos Mangues Beach (also called Barramares), 8 km away from Porto Seguro. Lots of young people, sports, dancing and live music. Other options for partying include Taperapuã and Itacimirim beaches.

For naturists, there is a wide range of beautiful and reserved beaches such as Nudism Beach, Pedra Grande, Itapororoca and Taipe beaches.
Divers also find great beaches where they can appreciate the many local natural beauties. The most famous ones are: Parracho, Mundaí beach, the Coroa Vermelha Coral Reef on Mutá Beach, Coqueiros Beach and Nativos Beach.

For visitors seeking beautiful landscapes, the main options are: Barra Velha Beach, Mutá Beach, Lagoa Azul Beach, Rio da Barra Beach and Espelho Beach. This last one, elected as the third most beautiful beach in Brazil, was so named after the transparency of its waters, which reflect the surrounding landscape as if it were a mirror.

For those who love bathing in calm waters, options are Caraíva Beach, Juacema or Satu Beach, Curuípe Beach and Mucugê Beach.

For who appreciate natural environments, trekking between Arraial D’Ajuda and Trancoso is an excellent attraction. Ponta Grande Beach, for instance, offers equipment such as banana-jet, kayaks and motorboats.

Schooner Rides
Local companies offer tours to Recife de Fora (“The Outer Sea Coral Reef”), the Coroa Alta Coral Reef, to Caraíva, Trancoso, Abrolhos and Paraíso Island.

Trancoso
Located on the top of a hillock, this small 16th century village, founded by Portuguese Jesuits, today is an ideal hideout to run away from big town strife and stress. It offers 12 Km of beaches uniting Arraial d’Ajuda and Trancoso, a length that can be covered on a walk along the beach, or by bus or by car, on an unpaved road departing from Arraial. Quadrado Square is the main meeting point in the town, where everything happens. The town offers rustic and sophisticated restaurants, inns, bars and handcrafts stores, all of which help keep the exciting mood of the place. This square also hosts the headquarters of The Discovery Square Foundation (Fundação Quadrilátero do Descobrimento) and the São João Batista Church.

Arraial D’Ajuda Village
Popular among hippies in the 1970’s, Arraial D’Ajuda has won international fame due to its elegant simplicity. Seduced by its special atmosphere, adventurers from all corners of the world have settled there, turning Arraial into a “corner of the world”, as people call it.