Santa Teresa

Town ·🇧🇷 Brazil

Population 23,872

Area 686 km²

Time zone America/Sao_Paulo

Official website www.santateresa.es.gov.br

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Santa Teresa Essentials

Santa Teresa, Brazil's first Italian settlement, preserves its heritage through 19th-century architecture and traditional cuisine. Located in the mountainous Atlantic Forest, the town is a hub for biodiversity research, centered around the Mello Leitão Museum founded by naturalist Augusto Ruschi. Visitors can explore high-altitude viewpoints like Vale do Canaã and Goiapaba-Açu, which offer vistas of the rugged landscape, or visit the numerous waterfalls and bird sanctuaries that earned the region its reputation as the land of hummingbirds.

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