Northeast Region

In order to get to know Brazil's roots, where nature is abundant and the
country offers its most extensive display of popular culture, you need to
visit the northeast. This region includes nine states: Alagoas, Bahia,
Ceará, Maranhão, Paraiba, Pernambuco, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte and
Sergipe, and one territory, the Fernando de Noronha island. There, you
will encounter summer weather year-round, as well as the most beautiful
beaches on the continent. The beaches range from the fascinating Canoa
Quebrada beach, in Ceará, to Genipabu and its sand dunes in Rio Grande do
Norte, Porto de Galinhas in Pernambuco and the Fernando de Noronha
Archipelago, among many others, where every imaginable type of water sport
is practiced. The delicious swing of typical dances, such as forró, frevo,
ciranda, maracatu, and lambada, as well as the electrical instrument
caravans and Carnival, will easily captivate you. You will savor a wide
array of African dishes seasoned with palm oil and pepper sauces, as well
as many seafood and cassava dishes accompanied by Brazil's most famous
national drink, the caipirinha (distilled sugar cane with lemon and
sugar), or by a refreshing coconut milk. The regional handicrafts produce
an extensive variety of souvenirs.

You will find in this region two sites that have been proclaimed by Unesco
as World Heritage sites: Olinda, Pernambuco, the birthplace of Portuguese
civilization in Brazil, and Pelourinho in Salvador, Bahia.
At Pedra Furada National Park in Raimundo Nonato County, Piauí you will
find cave paintings dating back to the first traces of human presence in
the Americans .