Santos

Santos, a port of the state of São Paulo in Brazil, founded in 1546, on the island of São Vicente, and at the foot of the church-crowned Monserrate. It has fine wharves, gas and tramways, and a good water-supply; but it is a hot, dirty, damp, unhealthy place, and yellow fever is endemic. A railway (40 miles, 5 of them by cable up the Serra do Mar—2500 feet) connects it with São Paulo, whose port it is. Of the exports the principal item is coffee. Pop. 15,000.