Fortress
Itaipu Fortress
🇧🇷 Brazil
The Forte Duque de Caxias de Itaipu, known as the Itaipu Fortress, is located at Ponta de Itaipu, in Praia Grande, commanding the entrance channel of São Vicente, on the coast of the state of São Paulo.
Machine-translated from “Fortaleza de Itaipu” on the Portuguese Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Itaipu Fortress ranks #7,668 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #54 of the 80 mapped in Brazil. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Brazil compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Itaipu Fortress?
Itaipu Fortress stands in Brazil, at -24.01572°, -46.39889°.
How famous is Itaipu Fortress?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,668 of 8,134 worldwide, and #54 in Brazil. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Itaipu Fortress?
Fortress of Santo Amaro da Barra Grande, about 10 km away.
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