Saco da Pirabura

Pirabura is among the place names in Ilhabela left in the language of the Indigenous groups of the Tupi-Guarani stock. On 17 February 1916, the Príncipe de Astúrias sailed from Barcelona bound for Santos, Montevideo and Buenos Aires, full of Europeans, almost all of them immigrants. When the ship sank, the only lifeboat carried the castaways to the calmer waters of Saco da Pirabura, where they were put ashore, and in three trips it rescued more than 100 people. Many survivors saved themselves by clinging to bales of cork that had been on deck since an unplanned stop the day before.

In the region, the fauna includes large passing and bottom-dwelling fish, cetaceans, hundreds of microorganisms and species never studied. In Ilhabela, the water averages around 22 °C and can reach 27 °C from mid-January until the arrival of autumn.