Calhetas beach
Among the rocks.
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Cabo de Santo Agostinho is a municipality some 35 kilometres south of Recife in Pernambuco, named after the headland that a number of historians see as the true site of Brazil's discovery, three months before the Portuguese Cabral arrived. According to this account, the Spaniard Vicente Yáñez Pinzón sailed with four ships from Palos in November 1499, and after crossing the Equator and a violent storm sighted the cape on 26 January 1500, anchoring in a sheltered bay, today's Suape. The town later grew with the sugar mills, and became one of the state's largest economies with the Suape port and industrial complex. Visitors come for its beaches framed by rocks and hills, such as Calhetas and Gaibu, and for a park on the cape with the ruins of old fortifications and ocean viewpoints. It lies on the way between Recife and Porto de Galinhas.
Among the rocks.
Ruins and viewpoints.
Pinzón's anchorage.
Cabo de Santo Agostinho, south of Recife, Pernambuco state
Some historians hold that Pinzón landed here on 26 January 1500, before Cabral.