Paraguaçú’, is the name of the transocean project: it means ‘immense sea’, in a native language of Amazonia. It was also, the name of a Tupinambá indian girl, or Catarina do Brasil after marrying Diogo Álvares - the first portuguese inhabitant of Brasil, after his shipwreck and rescue near that coast, in 1510. This name wants to pay homage to the umbilical relation Portugal-Brasil, and the ...pioneer spirit of the navigators from the XV and XVI centuries (Pedro Álvares Cabral, in particular), but also to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the first aereal crossing of the south Atlantic, in 1922, by Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral, as well as the grace of the brazilian people...
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