Machine translation of the Portuguese Wikipedia article (November 2026 version).
Cabo de Santo Agostinho is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. It is part of the urban concentration of Recife and belongs to the metropolitan region of that capital. The Cape of Santo Agostinho (a geographic feature bearing the same name) is considered by many scholars to be the site of the Discovery of Brazil, as it was the stretch of land sighted by the Spanish navigator Vicente Yáñez Pinzón, and the point where the explorer landed on January 26, 1500, three months before Pedro Álvares Cabral's arrival on the Brazilian coast. However, the sailing of Castilian ships along the Brazilian coast produced no lasting consequences. Pinzón's arrival can be seen as a simple incident of Spanish maritime expansion. For this reason, it is considered that Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil.
The rock formation, characterized by a volcanic extrusion that projects out over the sea, is also a world geological landmark, as it represents the last point of rupture between South America and Africa, which until then were joined in a single vast continental mass called Gondwana (the southern part of Pangaea).
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