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Porto Seguro

Porto Seguro is in the southern part of the state of . The region possesses amazing beaches and preserved areas of Mata Atlântica, an original tropical jungle found by the Portuguese discoverers in the year 1500.
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  • Type: City with 168,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of Bahia State, Brazil
  • Also known as: “Thanks to you can”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Porto Seguro Airport and Porto Seguro Lighthouse.

Aerodrome
Photo: enioprado, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Porto Seguro International Airport is the airport serving Porto Seguro, . It is operated by Sinart.

Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Photo: Adefilippo, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Arraial d’Ajuda.

Photo: Webarthur, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Arraial d'Ajuda is a district in the municipality of Porto Seguro, , . The city is known for its beaches and its architecture that make it a destination for tourism, which is the main economic activity of the district.

Porto Seguro

Latitude
-16.4435° or 16° 26′ 37″ south
Longitude
-39.0643° or 39° 3′ 51″ west
Population
168,000
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
IATA airport code
BPS
United Nations Location Code
BR BPS
Open location code
59M2HW4P+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1436472643
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3452640
Wiki­data ID
Q499922
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Porto Seguro” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بورتو سيجورو”
  • Armenian: “Պորտու Սեգուրու”
  • Armenian: “Պորտու-Սեգուրու”
  • Basque: “Porto Seguro”
  • Bengali: “পোর্তো সেগোরো”
  • Bishnupriya: “পর্টো সেগুরো”
  • Breton: “Porto Seguro”
  • Catalan: “Porto Seguro”
  • Cebuano: “Porto Seguro”
  • Chechen: “Порту-Сегуру”
  • Chinese: “Porto Seguro”
  • Chinese: “塞古羅港”
  • Chinese: “塞古鲁港”
  • Czech: “Porto Seguro”
  • Danish: “Porto Seguro”
  • Dutch: “Porto Seguro”
  • Esperanto: “Porto Seguro”
  • Finnish: “Porto Seguro”
  • French: “Porto Seguro”
  • Galician: “Porto Seguro”
  • Georgian: “პორტუ-სეგურუ”
  • German: “Município de Porto Seguro”
  • German: “Porto Seguro”
  • German: “Vila de Porto Seguro”
  • Greek: “Πόρτο Σεγκούρο”
  • Gujarati: “પોર્ટો સેગ્યુરો”
  • Hindi: “पोर्टो सेगुरो”
  • Hungarian: “Porto Seguro”
  • Ido: “Porto Seguro”
  • Indonesian: “Porto Seguro”
  • Irish: “Porto Seguro”
  • Italian: “Porto Seguro”
  • Japanese: “ポルト・セグーロ”
  • Japanese: “ポルト・セグロ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ ಸೆಗುರೊ”
  • Kazakh: “Portw-Segwrw”
  • Kazakh: “Порту-Сегуру”
  • Kazakh: “پورتۋ-سەگۋرۋ”
  • Korean: “포르투세구루”
  • Latvian: “Portuseguru”
  • Lithuanian: “Porto Seguras”
  • Lithuanian: “Porto Seguro”
  • Malagasy: “Porto Seguro”
  • Malay: “Porto Seguro”
  • Marathi: “पोर्टो सेगुरो”
  • Mazanderani: “پورتو سگورو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Porto Seguro”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porto Seguro”
  • Norwegian: “Porto Seguro”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Porto Seguro”
  • Persian: “پورتو سگورو”
  • Polish: “Porto Seguro”
  • Portuguese: “Porto Seguro”
  • Portuguese: “Praia de Mundaí”
  • Romanian: “Porto Seguro”
  • Russian: “Порту-Сегуру”
  • Scots: “Porto Seguro”
  • Sinhala: “පෝර්ටෝ සේගුරෝ”
  • Slovak: “Porto Seguro”
  • Spanish: “Porto Seguro”
  • Swedish: “Porto Seguro”
  • Tamil: “போர்டோ செகுரோ”
  • Tatar: “Порту-Сегуру”
  • Telugu: “పోర్టో సెగురో”
  • Thai: “ปอร์ตูเซกูโร”
  • Turkish: “Porto Seguro”
  • Ukrainian: “Порту-Сегуру”
  • Urdu: “پورٹو سیجورو”
  • Venetian: “Porto Seguro”
  • Vietnamese: “Porto Seguro”
  • Volapük: “Porto Seguro”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Porto Seguro”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Porto Seguro”. Photo: Vilamir Azevedo, CC BY-SA 3.0.