Guarapari | |
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| Municipality of Guarapari | |
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| Nickname: "Barra" | |
 Location in Espírito Santo | |
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| Coordinates:20°39′S40°30′W / 20.650°S 40.500°W /-20.650; -40.500 | |
| Country |  Brazil |
| Region | Southeast |
| State |  Espírito Santo |
| Founded | 1679 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Rodrigo Borges (Republicanos) |
| Area | |
• Total | 591.815 km2 (228.501 sq mi) |
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| Elevation | 15 m (49 ft) |
| Population (2022[2]) | |
• Total | 124,656 |
• Estimate (2024) | 134,944 |
| • Density | 210.633/km2 (545.538/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Guarapariense |
| Time zone | UTC−3 (BRT) |
| HDI (2010) | 0.731 –high[3] |
Guarapari is a coastal town ofEspírito Santo,Brazil, a popular tourist destination. Its beach is famous for the high natural radioactivity level of its sand.
Guarapari is a part of Greater Vitoria, 47 km south of the state capitalVitória. Its population is 126,701 (2020) and its area is 592 km2.It is a well-known tourist destination, known for its curving white sand beaches backed by commercial development, which extend southward to Nova Guarapari andMeaípe. With its heavily built-up coastline likeVila Velha and Vitória, it caters heavily to seasonal tourists, and consequently has quite a dramatic seasonal population fluctuation.
The municipality contains the 953 hectares (2,350 acres)Concha d'Ostra Sustainable Development Reserve, established in 2003 to protect the mangroves of the Bay of Guarapari.[4] It also contains the 1,500 hectares (3,700 acres)Paulo César Vinha State Park, which protects an area of dunes, lagoons and marshes along the Atlantic shore.[5] Formerly called the Setiba nature reserve, it is a pristine example of a coastal ecosystem and important for local turtle and bird populations.
Around the year 1000, theIndigenous people who occupied the southern coast of what is now the state of Espírito Santo were driven inland by the invasion ofTupi peoples from theAmazon. In the 16th century, when the first European explorers arrived in the region, it was inhabited by one of these Tupi peoples: the Temiminós.[6]
In 1585, theJesuit priestJosé de Anchieta founded aJesuit mission tocatechize the Indigenous people of the region: the village of Rio Verde, or the village of Santa Maria de Guaraparim. The village had a convent and a church dedicated toSaint Anne. For its inauguration, Anchieta composed theAutoTupi. In 1677, the church of Our Lady of the Conception was built. In 1679, thevillage of Guaraparim was elevated to the status of a town. In 1835, the district of Guarapari was created. In 1860, the district received a visit from theBrazilian EmperorDom Pedro II. In 1878, it became a municipality. In 1891, it acquired city status.[7]
At the end of the19th century, European settlers (mostly Italians who landed on theBenevente River) settled in the municipality's interior, founding the towns of Todos os Santos and Rio Calçado, among others. These families' main economic activity was coffee, in addition to the cultivation they cultivated for their own subsistence. In 1948, its own town hall was established. In the mid-1960s and 1970s, Guarapari became nationally famous due to the purported medicinal properties of itsmonazite sands. As a result, there was a growing tourist wave around the city.[8]
The city is served byGuarapari Airport.
Along a roughly 500-mile (800 km) portion of Brazil's Atlantic coast that runs from north ofRio de Janeiro up to the region south ofBahia, the sands of old beaches are naturally radioactive. Sea waves pound coastal mountains rich inmonazite, a phosphate of rare earth metals containing uranium and thorium.[9][10] Thebackground radiation level on some spots on the Guarapari beach read 175 mSv per year (20μSv/h);[11] Some other spots can reach dosages of up to 55 μSv/h.[12] The average exposure level across the United States is 0.34 μSv/h[13] while achest x-ray is a one time exposure of 0.1 mSv, and an abdominal and pelvic CT scan with and without contrast is 20-30 mSv.[14]
In the Guarapari city, radiation levels are far lower: a study among 320 inhabitants showed an average received dose of 0.6 μSv/h, corresponding to 5.2 mSv per year.[15]
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