Ports in South America

The largest port in Latin America, shipping coffee since the 1890s docks that opened Brazil to mass export. Santos now moves about...

The Vale iron ore complex at Vitoria, opened in 1966 to ship Minas Gerais ore. Around 100 million tonnes a year of ore and pellets...

Once the largest fishing port on Earth. Chimbote boomed on anchoveta reduced to fishmeal until the 1972 El Nino collapse crashed s...

Founded by the Spanish in 1537 as the port for Lima, Callao shipped Andean silver to Panama for transfer to Spain and was later gu...

The fortified Spanish treasure port on the Caribbean coast, protected by walls and the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas, now part of...