Cabo de Santo Agostinho

Cabo de Santo Agostinho, whose name in English is Cape of St. Augustine, is a municipality of 448 square kilometers in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, about 35 kilometers south of the state capital Recife. Some historians believe the Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón anchored in a bay here on 26 January 1500, although the Portuguese discovery of Brazil by Pedro Álvares Cabral on 21 April 1500 is the one officially recognized. The place was incorporated as a town in 1811. Its economy has an industrial section centered on the Suape port, and it also has tropical beaches and nature reserves, the best known being Chalets, Paraíso and Gaibu. The 2022 census counted 203,440 residents, compared with 185,025 in 2010 and 152,977 in 2000.