South 6 Degrees, at the mouth of the RioPotengi, Brazil, the Portugal colonial camp, Natal Port.
This is the northeastern tip of the South American Continent, and also the closest place to the African continent. In fact, from Brazil's natural harbor of natal to Sierra Leone in West Africa, the straight-line distance is only 3,000 kilometers. With a fair wind and full sails, the voyage takes only a month, or even less!
The shortness of this route to the New Continent far surpasses anything the Castilians could imagine, and it is an absolute nautical secret of the Portuguese people. And in Bruno's calculations, natal Port is roughly a full 6,000 kilometers from the dangerous Native Kingdom, from that Cipangu Island called Cuba, with no native tribes of any size nearby, utterly removed from all danger! So this is an excellent colonial site, a transit station that must exist on the "Atlantic New Route."
