COLORFUL BRAZIL: Light Tower at Coruripe, Alagoas (AL)

CORURIPE, Alagoas (AL)

Coruripe is located at approximately 90 km south from Maceió, capital of the tiny Brazilian state of Alagoas.  Traces have been found at archeological sites that primitive men already had lived there. At the time of the arrival of the first French colonists, cannibalistic Caeté indians lived there. The French were ousted by the Portuguese; the Dutch took control of the region for almost two decades. At present, Coruripe counts little more than fifty thousand inhabitants, who deal with sugar cane production, fishery, handicraft, and tourism. At the time of my visit in July 2008, the light tower was under c0nstruction. Now this ‘farol’ is one of the landmarks of Coruripe. When I took this picture, it was already twenty past noon. With the position of the sun just behind the top of the light tower, as if there were a glow light on this tower.

The original picture was taken in July 2008.

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