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São Vicente lies on an island along the southeastern coast of Brazil, among estuaries and channels backed by the Serra do Mar. Indigenous communities occupied the coast before the Portuguese arrived. In 1532 the expedition of Martim Afonso de Sousa reached the island and established São Vicente, one of the earliest permanent Portuguese towns in Brazil. From the coast paths crossed the steep mountains to the inland plateau.

The later city of Santos lies here.