Cunhambebe

The sheltered bays around Angra dos Reis lie between the Atlantic and the forested slopes of the Serra do Mar. Tamoio communities lived along this coast before Portuguese settlement. Cunhambebe, a Tupinambá leader associated with the country between Angra and Ubatuba, became one of the figures remembered in the resistance to Portuguese expansion. French visitors also frequented this coast in the sixteenth century.