Fortaleza

Fortaleza is a town with about 2.2 million persons in the northwest part of Brazil.

It´s situated in the state of Ceara, who has a long coastline with some 50 praias.

It’s close to the equator, and has about the same climate all year around, with 24 – 32 degrees centigrade.

January to May it is raining, sometimes heavy, but mostly early in the morning, than the sun comes back.

Ceara has something like 350 sunny days a year, and is sometimes called the state of sun and light.

The people in the rich states like Rio and Sao Paulo, see often the northeast part of Brazil as poor and retarded.

And lots of tourist from the south, comes to Fortaleza in July, when it’s cold and rainy in the south of Brazil.


Brazil has 190 million people and about the same area as USA, excluding Alaska.


The people of Brazil are friendly and easygoing but prefers sometimes football and carnival before working.


The big cities in Brazil have ”favelas”, big areas occupied by poor people.

Some of these are ruled by “organized crime”, and to these favelas, like some in Rio de Janeiro, ordinary police hardly goes.