Belém Lighthouse, Modern lighthouse in Belém, Brazil.
Belém Lighthouse is a quadrangular concrete tower with four massive legs around a central column, standing 45 meters tall in the Mangal das Garças park. It has two observation platforms open to the public and a lantern at the top. It stands at the confluence of the Guamá and Acará rivers on Guajará Bay.
The sources give no construction date and describe the lighthouse only as modern; they record no earlier navigation system it replaced. It belongs to the Brazilian Navy and is run by the Centro de Sinalização Náutica e Reparos Almirante Moraes Rego, under the Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação. It was built in the Mangal das Garças park in Cidade Velha, Belém's oldest neighbourhood, at the confluence of the Guamá and Acará rivers on Guajará Bay.
The lighthouse belongs to the Brazilian Navy and is run by the Centro de Sinalização Náutica e Reparos Almirante Moraes Rego, under the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation. Its platforms are open to the public, so visitors share the tower with the navigational work it performs over the Guajará Bay.
The lighthouse stands inside the Mangal das Garças environmental park in Cidade Velha, at the confluence of the Guamá and Acará rivers on Guajará Bay. Its two observation platforms are open to the public, so visitors can climb the tower for views over the park and the water. The light shows a white flash every twenty seconds.
The lighthouse is owned by the Brazilian Navy and run by the Centro de Sinalização Náutica e Reparos Almirante Moraes Rego, under the Directorate of Hydrography and Navigation. Its official identifiers are Admiralty G0042.5 and NGA 111-17599.
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