The aim of this work is to contribute with information to an Archaeological Chart of Underwater Wrecks in the coast of Pernambuco during the century XVI. This article briefly describes the beginning of Underwater Archaeology in the Northeast of Brazil, presents some reasons for the great quantity of shipwrecks in Pernambuco coast, adds information about twenty five shipwrecks with year, estimated localization, a short history of each one and plots these shipwrecks in the charts 22200 and 52

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... Diretoria de Hidrografia e Navegação. In addition, it also describes the classification of shipwrecks causing factors as well as proposes a model for a field form with necessary data to register archaeological wreck sites.