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Metropolitan area in São Paulo state
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Santos and South Coast is a region in the state of São Paulo. It is formed by the Baixada Santista, a coastal metropolitan area with 1.6 million inhabitants centered on Santos, and the Paulista part of the Ribeira Valley, Brazil's largest area of primary Atlantic rainforest, part of the Atlantic Forest South-East Reserves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Self service with restaurants, cafés and sweets.
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Relatively tranquil beach city not far from São Paulo
A nice historic center and access to the unspoiled Cardoso island
Surrounded by Atlantic Forest, contains the Famous Devil's Cave (Portuguese: Caverna do Diabo)
Lively beach city that can get quite crowded, but has also some calmer beaches
Containing one of the few Colonial historical centers of the state (a national heritage site), and the wild and huge Juréia beach
A long stretch of quiet beaches and sand dunes
A city with a church from the 1500s and has a somewhat active city centre
Mongaguá is a city in the South Coast of São Paulo state.
The paradisiac Barra da Una beach and aventure at the Juréia-Itatins Ecological Station
Brazil's largest port and home of F.C. Santos, with beautiful historical constructions of the coffee farming era
Previously called "Jacupiranga State Park", it contains a large original Atlantic rainforest reserve, the famous "Caverna do Diabo" (Devil's Cave) and the beautiful Lagamar de Cananéia
One of the largest original Atlantic rainforest reserves of the country, hence with large animal biodiversity, also with the highest concentration of caves in the World
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