Welcome to the Guaiú Project !

In Santa Cruz Cabrália district, half way from Porto Seguro to Belmonte, on the seashore, is located the Guaiú coconut palms beach, one of the most beautiful of the "Discovery Coast"(Costa do Descobrimento).
Originally, Guai-iú words are TUPI, native indian language, and mean "golden bay", because of the beach sand color.

Guaiú coconut trees, between the river and the cape with the same name, are the oldest ones of the region (80 to 100 years old), and may reach 20 meters height. They were probably a part of old coconut plantations.
Dispersed among coconuts palms, mango-trees, cashew-trees, Piaçavas palmers, shelter thousands of birds. Preás (a kind of rabbit), Armadillos, Saguis monkeys, Guiamus crabs, are frequently seen into this palmers gardens, that have already appeared in several publications, the latest in the book "Brasil Aventura, No caminho dos heróis' (Brazil Adventure, On the heroes way).

In front of Guaiú beach, 2 km from the coast, are located the Araripe coral reefs, probably the most majestical corals of South Bahia. Araripe constitutes the north extremity of reef banks that finish in Abrolhos Archipelago, 200 km to the south.
Southern Bahia coral reefs are very peculiar in South Atlantic and remind a "small Australian barrier": they contain unique mushroom-shaped formations, almost 30 meters deep, the "chapeirão".

From July to October , humpback whales, arrive from Antartica to reproduce, and come back eleven months later to give birth.The Abrolhos archipelago is the largest area for the reproduction and breeding of this species in the whole west Atlantic.
The reefs shelter octopusy, crayfish, shrimps, and it's not rare to see at daybreak, dolphins jumping out close to the beach.
Finally, it worthies to emphasize that along this coast, you find out one of the best areas in Southern Atlantic, for Blue Marlin fishing .

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