Santo Antônio do Paraguaçu, July 2019
We navigated the river Paraguaçu to get to see the beautiful and remote convent of Saint Antony. What an experience! We felt like in the movie Apocalypse Now, when Willard on the river patrol boat navigates toward Kurtz's outpost. We didn't see a soul for hours in the river, not even a fisherman. And then, all of the sudden we got to see this:
We anchored right in front:
Access to the church and convent was by river for much of its history; roads to the community of Iguape were only constructed later. Here we learned that the Convent had been demolished, and that everything was taken away and sold. Luckily the Church didn't have the fund to carry out the demolition so the church survived.
It was a very nice experience navigating in the river, and on the way back we saw many "saveiros", the typical Bahian sailboats.
Every anchorage — Paraguaçú River, Sep 2019
Up the wild Paraguaçú river to visit a 16th-century Franciscan convent.
| Stop | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Convent of Santo Antônio | Sep 2019 | Apocalypse Now jungle feeling · remote Paraguaçú river · Saveiros traditional boats on return |
Anchorage maps
Zoomed chart of the Paraguaçú river convent anchorage.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. GPS tracks from Raymarine chartplotter, archived September 2019.