Port of Santos Port of Santos The Port of Santos (in Portuguese: "Porto de Santos") is located in the city of Santos, state of São Paulo, Brazil. As of 2006, it is the busiest container port in Latin America. It possesses a wide variety of cargo handling terminals—solid and liquid bulk, containers, and general loads. It is Brazil's leading port in container traffic. The terrestrial access system to the port is made up by the Anchieta and Imigrantes highways and by the railroads operated by Ferroban and MRS. It was once considered the "port of death" in the 19th century due to yellow
Football in South America Two English immigrants, Thomas and James Hogg, organized a meeting in the Argentine capital on May 9, 1867; on this day the first football club was established in Latin America, and was christened the Buenos Aires Football Club. The Buenos Aires Cricket Club granted permission to the football club to use its cricket ground in Parque Tres de Febrero. More than a month after its creation, the Buenos Aires Football Club played its first football game on June 20. It was played with sixteen players on both sides of which only eight players were of British nationality. Participation was less