title: Roteiro (navigation)
text: # Roteiro (navigation)
  
  A Roteiro was a Portuguese navigational route description compiled to aid sailors and pilots and used from the 16th to the 19th centuries, an early version of a Baedeker Guide. The Portuguese word 'roteiro' translates as 'route', the French a routier, from which the English word "rutter" is derived.
  
  Well-known roteiros are:
  
  * Aleixo da Mota's roteiro of the 1600s, describing the route from India along the African coast.
  * The 1666 Roteiro da India Oriental by Antonio de Maris Carneiro, which describes the coastline from Sofala to Mombasa, noting harbours and sandbars, Cape Finisterre and the Strait of Gibraltar.
  * The 1823 Roteiro da costa do Maranhaõ ePará by António Gregório de Freitas, covering the coastline of Maranhão and Pará, two northeastern states of Brazil.
  