Ceará by Igor Jatobá

Location

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The weather of Ceará is a strong ally for tourists who arrive there. The Equator line guarantees sun and warmth throughout the year, with temperatures ranging between 24°C (75°F) and 32°C (90°F). The perfect combination for you to enjoy Ceará's landscapes, attractions and good tourism infrastructure.

573 km (356 mi.) of coastline 28째C (82째F) average temperature with 2,800 hours of sunshine per year 15 knot trade winds

FORTALEZA

Two flights per week 8h30min from Atlanta to Fortaleza by plane

Hotel offer in Cearรก - 2010 Apartments: 25.800 habitational units Beds - 66.900 Means of accommodation: 1.041

Hotels, inns, lodging houses

Gastronomy

Main Destinations

Fortaleza Pole

Dancing to forr贸 at the Pirata Bar in Fortaleza is the best Monday night program of the planet. Pirata Bar

Located in a square on one of Fortaleza’s main avenues, CEART, the Handicraft Center of Ceará, is one of the best places to buy local handicrafts.

Praia do Futuro Beach This is the most famous beach in the city, with an excellent infrastructure of bars and restaurants, offering from coconut water, tropical fruit juices and dishes made of fish or sea fruits to different programs, such as the Crabs Thursdays in the huts at night with comic stand up shows.

With extraordinary conditions for the practice of wind and kitesurf, the beaches of the Cearรก coast have already become an international point of reference for this sport.

CEARĂ EVENTS CENTER Total area: 173,000 m2 (1,860,000 sq ft) Display area: 73,000 m2 (785,000 sq ft) Gardens: 21,000 m2 (226,000 sq ft) Parking lot: 3.600 parking spaces Investment: R$ 279 million (US$ 149 million)

ACQUARIO CEARĂ The first international aquarium in Latin America Built area: 21,500 m2 (231,000 sq ft) Tanks with capacity for 15 million liters (4 million gallons) Four-story leisure area, two 4D movie theaters, submarine simulators, equipment of interaction between audience and aquarium as well as submerse tunnels. Number of visitors expected: 1,2 million people per year Jobs: 150 direct jobs, 1,600 indirect jobs and 18,000 in the productive chain Investment: R$ 250 million (US$ 133 million)

ACQUARIO CEARÁ

Infrastructure on the beaches

Leisure and entertainment

The biggest water park in Latin America About 20 rides and attractions The highest waterslide in the world

Fortaleza Pole

Jericoacoara Pole Stay at one the charming inns of Jericoacoara and watch the beautiful sunset the beach has to offer. These are great attractions during the day. At night you can taste some fish or sea fruits recipes at the local restaurants and enjoy the authentic forr贸 dance.

Jericoacoara Pole

Canoa Quebrada Pole

Canoa Quebrada Pole Find music and amusement for all tastes at the nights of Broadway, the town’s main street. Canoa offers a varied menu of fish and seafood. Buggy excursions, paragliding and sandboarding with a “skibunda“ (“butt ski”) down the dunes are some of its attractions.

Canoa Quebrada Pole

Canoa Quebrada Pole Handicraft

Bobbin lace

Colored sand

Cariri Pole

Cariri Pole Juazeiro do Norte is one of the main centers for religious pilgrimages in the country. The city is famous for its churches, museums, and its well known statue of Father Cícero Romão Batista. At the same time, the region where the cities of Crato, Barbalha, Nova Olinda and Santana do Cariri are located is the perfect landscape for eco-tourism, with unique flora and fauna, hot springs, caves and waterfalls. The region is the perfect place for hiking, walking, cycling, and adventure sports. Cariri, carved out of the Araripe canyon, has the largest Cretaceous period fossil bed in the world and old sugar mills and mansions that preserve a piece of our state’s history.

Cariri Pole

Ceará is ready and glad to welcome you. Now it’s time to enjoy it!

CONTACTS Tourism Department of Cearรก Coordenation of Promotion & Marketing Phone + 55 85 3101 4662 / 4685