Bertioga

Guarujá in São Paulo,

São Paulo (center) and Baixada Santista on the coast

Bertioga is a town on the coast of the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Bertioga represents the northeastern end of the metropolitan region of Baixada Santista to about 25 km southeast preferred port city of Santos represents the distance to the state capital São Paulo is about 65 km. The municipality has about 42 945 inhabitants (2008 ) on an area of 492 km ², which corresponds to a population density of 89 persons per square kilometer.

Bertioga BALNEARIA has the official status of a spa, an Estancia. The economy is dominated by the tourist. Numerous beaches attract visitors mainly from the state capital of São Paulo, with more than 10 million people.

Especially in the north of the municipality, the hinterlands of the municipality of dense rain forest, the Mata Atlântica is overgrown. Of historical interest is the Fort of São João in the 18th century.

Historically described Bertioga the southern end of Kapitanates Santo Amaro, one of 15 past Erbkapitanate from which Brazil is composed. The German adventurer Hans Staden was his reportedly beginning of the 16th century commander of the Portuguese fort, Forte de São Filipe da Bertioga and was dragged here by the Tupinambás Indians to Ubatuba.

Josef Mengele, notorious for its human experiments at Auschwitz -Birkenau, died here in 1979.