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Resort | Terravista
Bringing golf, luxury and charter
services to a beach paradise in Brazil
The Terravista resort is on the north-
east coast of Brazil, with the ocean
on one side and Atlantic rainforest
on the other. It is on the Discovery
Coast, in Porto Seguro, where Captain
Pedro Alvares Cabral is believed
to have been the first European to
arrive in Brazil. He reached land in
38 Outlook 02/2008
the year 1500, just after Easter, with
22 boats holding 1,350 men.
Porto Seguro became the first capital
of Brazil, before that role was transferred
to Salvador and then Rio de Janeiro. It was
the busiest port in Portugal’s American
colonies from 1500 into the early 1800s,
A golfer putts on the green at hole Nr. 14 of the Terravista golf course
and then, somewhere along the way, it became
forgotten. The waters of the port were
not deep enough for large ships, and the
action moved down the coast to other harbors.
When Michael Rumpf Gail visited Porto
Seguro in 1987, the trip from São Paulo