Araranguá Lighthouse

Araranguá
Morros dos Conventos
Araranguá Lighthouse
Araranguá
Morros dos Conventos
Brazil
Location Araranguá
Brazil
Coordinates 28°56′05″S 49°21′45″W / 28.93472°S 49.36250°W / -28.93472; -49.36250Coordinates: 28°56′05″S 49°21′45″W / 28.93472°S 49.36250°W / -28.93472; -49.36250
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
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]

Araranguá Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in Araranguá, Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Southern Brazil". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 1 July 2017.



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