Considered the "City of the Sun" because there are 300 sunny days a year.
Famous for the dunes at its littoral.
It also has the title of Spatial Capital because has the 1º Base of rocket throwing of South America.
And with all this sea the principal food for tourists is to eat a crab appreciating the calm and peaceful visual of the city.
The biggest party of the city is the carnival out of the real time, called Carnatal.

Considered as one of the most famous postcards of the city, Ponta Negra is a caprice of nature. At its small kiosks you may appreciate snacks like: fried fish, crab and oysters. You can see fishermen's rafts.

Careca Hill
The main natural attraction of Ponta Negra Beach is this dune with 120 meters of height.

The Three Wise Men Fortress is the oldest construction of RN.

Forte Beach
Forte Beach is a great choice for who likes becalmed sea. It's a beach with few waves and reefs that form a big wall creating natural pools, excellent pools for a calm bath.

It's one of the most visited and famous beaches of Brazilian Northeast, with a tranquil bluish sea and invariable fresh wind.
This beach is famous because of its fixed or movable dunes.
You can do promenades in rafts with stops to dive.

Tours on the dunes
The biggest agitation happens at the dunes, where professional buggy drivers do radical and audacious movements.
The emotion is completed with stops on the dunes to contemplate a nature of rare beauty.

Promenade with dromedary
A promenade by Northeastern desert.

The cashew tree is placed at Pirangi, it's considered the world's biggest cashew tree because of its manner of growing up.
Among the mother tree and its children there is a true symbiosis to survive, they help each other, because while growing up the mother tree emits from its main stalk branches that look for the soil like roots instead of rising. After passing the soil they organize a root system with the objective of feeding that new cashew tree which is being formed.
The tree measures 8.400 square meters, corresponding to 70 normal cashew trees.
The esteemed age for the mother tree is about 110 to 120 years of existence.

Initiated in 1964, near Ponta Negra Beach, it occupies an area of about 5 kilometers having around 30 buildings with a modern architecture.

There are ramps to launch many kinds of rockets, a sophisticated meteorological station and another to launch research balloons. There are also tracing and telemetry radar.