Santos, São Paulo (bra)

Santos, São Paulo

Santos, São Paulo ranks 476th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Raleigh, North Carolina, Omsk, and Paramaribo. Memorable people born in Santos, São Paulo include Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Pepe, and Bartolomeu de Gusmão. Memorable people who died in Santos, São Paulo include Zito, Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, and Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales. Santos, São Paulo has been the birth place of many soccer players and politicians and the death place of many soccer players and politicians. Santos, São Paulo is located in Brazil.

Santos, officially Municipality of Estancia Balneária de Santos is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas. It is located mostly 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. The population is 433,656 in an area of 280.67 km2 (108.37 sq mi). The city is home to the Coffee Museum, where world coffee prices were once negotiated. There is also a football memorial, dedicated to the city's greatest players, which includes Pelé, who spent the majority of his career with Santos Futebol Clube. Its beachfront garden, 5,335 m (5,834 yd) in length, figures in Guinness World Records as the largest beachfront garden in the world. Read more on Wikipedia