Araranguá Lighthouse
Araranguá Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in Araranguá, Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean.
.jpg) Araranguá Lighthouse | |
  Araranguá Morros dos Conventos Brazil | |
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| Location | Araranguá Brazil |
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| Coordinates | 28°56′05″S 49°21′45″W |
| Year first constructed | 1953 |
| Foundation | concrete base |
| Construction | concrete and skeletal tower |
| Tower shape | skeletal tower atop a cylindrical tower with four buttresses, |
| Markings / pattern | white concrete tower with a horizontal black band |
| Tower height | 8 metres (26 ft)[1] |
| Focal height | 85 metres (279 ft)[1] |
| Range | 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi)[1] |
| Characteristic | Fl (3) W 20s.[1] |
| Admiralty number | G0602[2] |
| NGA number | 18924[2] |
| ARLHS number | BRA-007[2] |
| Brazil number | BR-3960[2] |
History
It was built in 1953 on a rocky bluff named Morros dos Conventos nearby the beach.[2] The lighthouse is a cylindrical concrete tower with four buttresses surmounted by a metal skeletal tower with the lantern on the top. The tower is white painted with a black horizontal band. The light emits three white flashes, at 3.3 seconds interval, every twenty seconds visible up to 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi). The lighthouse is managed by Brazilian Navy and is identified by the country code number BR-3960.
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See also
References
- List of Lights, Pub. 110: Greenland, The East Coasts of North and South America (Excluding Continental U.S.A. Except the East Coast of Florida) and the West Indies (PDF). List of Lights. United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
- "Southern Brazil". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
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