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The basic Porto Seguro facts to impress your friends like an encyclopedia:

  1. Porto Seguro city demographics – with the Porto Seguro population of just under 150,000 inhabitants, this city is now one of the top tourist destinations in Brazil. The population has rocketed from around 6,000 just twenty-odd years ago – and most of the growth is thanks to investment in tourism in the area.
  2. Discovered in 1500 by the Portuguese, Porto Seguro city is said to be the one of the earliest settlements in Brazil
  3. Per capita income Porto Seguro is around $9,000 a year.
  4. The top export of Porto Seguro is ethanol: Brazil to the U.S. export of ethanol is expected to be around 1.5 billion liters in 2007.

… and some fun Porto Seguro facts to entertain and amuse your friends!
Did you know…

  1. …That the Bahia has over a dozen state and national parks and environmental reservations where wildlife is protected by a strict environmental policy
  2. The “Discovery” Outdoors Museum is an incredible out door natural museum and art gallery. Made up of beaches, valleys, nature trails and amazing geographical formations, as well as traditional preserved villages, and rock engravings and natural sculptures, this living exhibition is spread along 130 kilometers of the southern Bahian coastline.
  3. Brazil has a birth certificate! Pedro Álvares Cabral and his crew, who “discovered” Brazil at Porto Seguro in 1500 on his way to India, wrote a long letter to the Portuguese king, describing the scenery and nature of the region, as well as their encounters with the local Amerindians. This letter is now heralded as “Brazil’s birth certificate”!
  4. In the year 2000, Brazil celebrated its 500th birthday – and the celebrations were focused in and around Porto Seguro. However, the indigenous Amerindians felt that it was an event that should be far from celebrated! And much demonstrations and unrest ensued.
  5. Football is by far the most popular sport in Brazil and many of the world's best football players come from the country.
  6. Competing only with football in the popularity stakes, Bahia music is one of the main passions of the native population of Porto Seguro. “Axe” is the music you will hear the most, and it was born in this region in the 1970s from a combination of Afro-Brazilian music varieties like the samba, frevo and reggae. The word Axe means “good vibration”.

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