In honor of the World Cup being played in Brazil, I decided to look at Brazil lighthouses. Brazil obviously has a lot of coastline, and it turns out it has a lot of lighthouses, too. But one immediately caught my eye, the black-and-white striped Calcanhar (also called Touros). Here's some info about it:
1943 (station established 1912). Active; focal plane 74 m (243 ft); white flash every 10 s. 62 m (203 ft) round cylindrical concrete tower with four ribs and lantern, painted with black and white horizontal bands.
This great lighthouse deserves to be better known: it is Brazil's tallest traditional lighthouse and one of the tallest concrete lighthouses in the world. It marks a headland near the northern end of the great curve of the Cabo de São Roque, the northeastern shoulder of South America. The first lighthouse was replaced by a 52 m (171 ft) cast iron tower in 1927.
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