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Santos is a municipality located on the coast of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. It has the largest port in Latin America, which is its main economic activity, along with tourism and trade. The city is home to the state every 13 June. Symbolic capital of São Paulo, home as well as various institutions of higher education. It is officially considered a tourist resort. In this city are located the Santos Futebol Clube, a famous football club where Pele played his entire career in Brazil and the Portuguese Santista.

The city is known for providing its residents an excellent quality of life and has an index 0.871 Human Development (2000), according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

Santos is divided into two distinct geographic areas: the island area and the mainland. Both differ in demographic terms, as in economic and geographical terms.

Santos's insular area, view from the top of the hill Monte Serrat.Se extends over the island of São Vicente, whose territory is divided with the neighboring municipality of São Vicente. With an area of \u200b\u200b39.4 km ², heavily urbanized, houses almost all the inhabitants of the city. Comprises a flat, with altitudes rarely exceed 20 m above sea level, extending Litoranea Plain of São Paulo, and a part composed of isolated hills called Maciço (Massif) of São Vicente, old and equipped home of an irregular urban occupation with a blend of luxury and low income, which barely exceeds maximum altitude of 200 m above sea level.

coastal gardens of Santos.Sobre the flat part of the island of São Vicente is virtually no vegetation due to the intense process of urbanization. In the northern part of the island, in the neighborhoods of Alemoa, Chico de Paula Sabo and still find evidence of mangroves. Before the occupation of the flat part of the island developments, there were vast areas covered by mangroves and flooded low vegetation near the beach.

It covers 231.6 km ² and represents the largest part of the municipality. Nearly 70% of it is considered an Environmental Protection Area, being situated within the boundaries of the Parque Estadual da Serra do Mar and harbor large tracts of coastal rainforest (known in Brazil with "Atlantic Forest").

Extensive coastal plains are covered with mangrove swamps, cut by rivers. On the banks of these rivers are banana plantations in small farms. It is a sparsely populated compared to the insular region.

continental area of \u200b\u200bthe city is bordered by the cities of Santo André and Mogi das Cruzes Bertioga. It is the highest point of the city, with 1,136 meters.

The Port of Santos (Portuguese Porto de Santos) is the main port of Brazil and Latin America. It is located in the city of Santos, State of São Paulo. The system of land access port consists of the Anchieta highway and Immigrants and two railway lines (Ferroban and MRS). It has an area of \u200b\u200b7,770,000 meters square.

Santos City is located in the most suitable point to move goods from outside the area. The railway structure, begun in the period of the Empire, ensured the flow of cargo, mainly coffee, for external trade.

Located 70 kilometers from the largest city in South America, São Paulo, the port is vented to the outside of the main industrial districts of the Greater São Paulo and Cubatão industrial complex.

The Companhia Siderurgica Paulista, linked to the steelmaker Usiminas, Minas Gerais, also operates a port that uses the same channel to vessel traffic. It is virtually a private extension of the Port of Santos, which is state owned. Market leader

Brazilian port, the Port of Santos also serves the needs of other South American countries embarking and disembarking their cargo in it.

Saints Cathedral is a Catholic church in the city of Santos in São Paulo, Brazil. It is the seat of the Diocese Santos and the Parish of Our Lady of Aparecida Rosario, the oldest in the city.

The old church of Saints, the predecessor of the present cathedral was demolished in 1907 for being in an advanced state of deterioration. In 1909 construction began on the new church, the temple currently under design German engineer Maximilian Emil Hehl, professor of the Polytechnic School of Sao Paulo. Hehl designed a Gothic style church in fashion at that time, with a dome over the crossing of Renaissance style. In general, the project is similar to the Catedral Metropolitana de São Paulo, designed by the same Hehl.

The church, still unfinished, was opened temporarily in 1924, with a Mass celebrated by the Metropolitan Archbishop Leopoldo Duarte e Silva. In 1925 he created the Diocese of Saints by Pope Pius XI, and the temple was elevated to cathedral. The works of the church would not be completed until 1967.

The entrance to the cathedral is guarded by statues of St. Peter and St. Paul, while the tower is decorated with sculptures of the prophets and the four evangelists. Inside, stained glass Germans have the life of the Virgin. In the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament are three fresh Benedito Calixto representing Noah, the high priest Melchizedek and Christ with the disciples Emmaus. The Chapel of Our Lady of Fatima is an image of the Virgin Mary brought from Portugal.

The cathedral also has a crypt where the bishops are buried Idyll José Soares and David Picao well as priests and also has room for all the people.

Santos But not all are saints, ... and also you can find one in any corner of a maid than another.