Araranguá Morros dos Conventos | |
Location: | Araranguá Brazil |
Coordinates: | -28.9347°N -49.3625°W |
Yearbuilt: | 1953 |
Foundation: | concrete base |
Construction: | concrete and skeletal tower |
Shape: | skeletal tower atop a cylindrical tower with four buttresses[1] |
Marking: | white concrete tower with a horizontal black band |
Height: | 8m (26feet) |
Focalheight: | 85m (279feet) |
Characteristic: | Fl (3) W 20s. |
Country: | Brazil |
Countrynumber: | BR-3960 |
Araranguá Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in Araranguá, Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean.
It was built in 1953 on a rocky bluff named Morros dos Conventos nearby the beach.[1] The lighthouse is a cylindrical concrete tower with four buttresses surmounted by a metal skeletal tower with the lantern on the top. The tower is white painted with a black horizontal band. The light emits three white flashes, at 3.3 seconds interval, every twenty seconds visible up to . The lighthouse is managed by Brazilian Navy and is identified by the country code number BR-3960.