Camboinhas is one of the 48 neighborhoods into which the city of Niterói, in Brazil, is divided. The name originated in a marine accident in the 1950s. In that decade, a ship called Camboinhas grounded on the beach. A Brazilian Navy corvette named "Angostura" was sent to save the ship, but grounded during her attempts to tow "Camboinhas" out of the beach.
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