Torres is a city in southern Brazil. It’s known for its beaches and rugged rock formations, like Morro da Guarita in Guarita State Park. Guarita Beach has strong surf, and penguins and sea lions offshore. Morro do Farol hill has a lighthouse and offers views of the beaches and migrating whales. The municipality's name derives from the three basalt towers standing in the ocean, giving the beach its distinctive appearance. On March 21, 1878, by provincial law, Torres became a municipality. Today, with a population of 33,686 permanent inhabitants, Torres is an important tourist centre, with more than fifty hotels, restaurants and bars. Local cuisine is influenced by international and Mediterranean cuisine, with seafood prevailing. Unlike the rest of the state's coast, which is uninterrupted sandy beach, Torres boasts four high rocky formations standing in the sea. These vertical columns are almost 40 meters high and contain several caves created by the action of the waves over the years, locally called furnas. These rocky formations rise up from the sea creating an impressive scenario.
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