Canguaretama

Barra de Cunhaú Beach in Canguaretama

Canguaretama is a city of 35,000 people (2021) in Rio Grande do Norte.

Understand

Canguaretama has a tropical rainy climate, with rainfall concentrated in the autumn - winter months.

Get in

It is 77 km south of Natal.

See

• Barra de Cunhaú Beach. The city's only beach has mangroves and a center for shrimp farming. 
• Capela Nossa Senhora das Candeias. 
• the Cunhaú Mortuary
• the Chama do Amor Sanctuary
• the Engenho Cunhaú - which was once the most important center of the Captaincy of Rio Grande during Colonial Brazil

Do

• festival of political emancipation, celebrated on April 16
• the Festival of the Martyrs of Cunhaú, which takes place on July 16
• the feast of the patron saint Nossa Senhora da Conceição, on December 8
• windsurfing and kitesurfing