Seridó Region
Cities
Acari
Acari is considered the cleanest city in Brazil and shelters an important amount of religious artifacts from the 18th century. The Church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário and the Historic Museum of Acari, for example, were tumbled by the National Historic and Artistic Patrimony, in 1964. This city still offers beautiful scenery and priviledged nature. The Serra do Bico de Arara (local mountain range) shelters in its caves, from march to september of each year, thousands of andorinhões, migrating birds whose origins are still unknown. The Açude of Gargalheiras (dam), with 40 million cubic meters of water, between rocks and mountain, is a rare and rustic spectacle of beauty.
Other tourist spots, like the mountain ranges of Pai Pedro (Father Peter) and Lagoa Seca (Dry Lake), are also part of the itinerary, as well as the natural rocky formations that play with the imagination of the visitors, like the rocks of the Santa (Saint), of the Avião (Airplane) and the Sapateiro (Shoeman). In the Well of Arthur, you can find rustic inscriptions that date back to ten thousand years ago. Circled by mountains and rocks, Acari is one of the oldest towns of the Seridó. In 1835, it broke away from Caicó e became a city on its own. There are 11,182 inhabitants. Being an old village of the cariri indians, its name has its origin in a type of fish with harsh scales and delicious white meat, common on the Acauã river, that bathes parts of the region.
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