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links: Porto Belo

To make up for the absence on this blog of a specific destination card devoted to Porto Belo, I am publishing a blog entry with links to sites of interest.
PORTALS
There is one portal with complete information on Porto Belo: Porto Belo online. You can also check out the section with tourist information on [...]

7 full (and free!) tourist guides on Brazil available online

Publishing house Empresa das Artes, with an extense travel-related catalogue, is enabling free online access to the full contents of several of its guides. To read the guides you need to access the tool provided by Book Stand Panrotas.
The available guides are:
Amazonas
Bahia
Goiás
Mato Grosso
Pará
Paraná
Santa Catarina
To open each guide, click on CLIQUE para ler esta publicação. A [...]

Beaches of Santa Catarina: quality index

The state of Santa Catarina’s Fundação do Meio Ambiente mantains a useful webpage where net users can check out the quality indexes for the beaches of the state. At Relatório de Balneabilidade you are presented with two choices:
a) you can check out the beaches of Florianópolis (playas de Florianópolis)
b) or you can check out [...]

Destination: Florianópolis

The island of Florianópolis, object of desire of Argentinians, Uruguayans, Paraguayans as well as thousands of Brazilians (mainly from Rio Grande do Sul and São Paulo), is a well-rounded holiday destination that touches on the heavenly in some places. The combination of an excellent quality of life with beautiful beaches and hills make of Floripa, [...]

Whale-watching in Santa Catarina

The whale-watching season is on its way on the southern coast of Brazil. The Right Whale Environmental Protection Area goes from Pinheira, south of Florianópolis, to Rincão, and it’s there where most whales gather together.
When summer arrives in the southern hemisphere, right whales abandon their traditional feeding grounds, in colder latitudes, and seek the shelter [...]