Araranguá Lighthouse
# Araranguá Lighthouse

Araranguá Lighthouse is an active lighthouse in Araranguá, Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean.

## History

It was built in 1953 on a rocky bluff named Morros dos Conventos nearby the beach. The lighthouse is a cylindrical concrete tower with four buttresses surmounted by a metal skeletal tower with the lantern on the top. The tower is white painted with a black horizontal band. The light emits three white flashes, at 3.3 seconds interval, every twenty seconds visible up to 25 nautical miles (46 km; 29 mi). The lighthouse is managed by Brazilian Navy and is identified by the country code number BR-3960.

