page_title: Santos, São Paulo
section_title: Twin towns – sister cities
hierarchical_section_title: Santos, São Paulo / Twin towns – sister cities
caption_attribution_description: English: Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
context_page_description: Santos is a municipality in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, founded in 1546 by the Portuguese nobleman Brás Cubas. It is located mostly on the island of São Vicente, which harbors both the city of Santos and the city of São Vicente, and partially on the mainland. It is the main city in the metropolitan region of Baixada Santista. The population is 433,966 in an area of 280.67 km². The city is also home to the Coffee Museum, where world coffee prices were once negotiated. There is also an association football memorial, dedicated to the city's greatest players, which includes Pelé, who played for the Santos Futebol Clube. Its beachfront garden, 5,335 m in length, figures in the Guinness Book of Records as the largest beachfront garden in the world.
context_section_description: Santos is twinned with:
   Alajuela, Costa Rica
   Ansião, Portugal
   Arouca, Portugal
   Cádiz, Spain
   Callao, Peru
   Coimbra, Portugal
   Colón, Panama
   Constanța, Romania
   Fernando de la Mora, Paraguay
   Funchal, Portugal
   Havana, Cuba
   Kenitra, Morocco
   Nagasaki, Japan
   Ningbo, China
   Porto, Portugal
   Rizhao, China
   Shimonoseki, Japan
   Taizhou, China
   Trieste, Italy
   Ulsan, South Korea
   Ushuaia, Argentina
   Veracruz, Mexico
   Viseu, Portugal
caption: View of Downtown Santos from Serrat Mountain
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