There is a service from Praia to Fortaleza, Brazil on Mondays and Thursdays departing early evening and returning at night.

Fortaleza (, Fortress ) is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil.

With a population close to 2. 3 million ( metropolitan region over 3. 4 million ), Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil.

Fortaleza is one of the three leading cities in the Northeast region together with Recife and Salvador.

The relative humidity in the air in Fortaleza is 77 % with average annual rainfall of.

Generally, Fortaleza is characterized by its hotness.

Fortaleza climate is usually very dry during the months of August to December, with very little rainfall in that period.

The dominant religion of Fortaleza is Roman Catholicism due to the influence of Portuguese settlers and missionaries during the colonial rule of Brazil.

Of these, the Fortaleza de São Miguel is the best preserved.

In 1598, the Earl of Cumberland is reported to have used the islands as a staging ground for his later attack on La Fortaleza in Puerto Rico.

An important variant is found in and around Fortaleza, Ceará ( called maracatu cearense ), which is different from the Recife / Olinda tradition in many respects: triangles are used instead of gonguês, surdos or zabumbas instead of alfaias.

Among the more notable of the revolts was the Jayuya Uprising, when a group of Puerto Rican Nationalists, under the leadership of Blanca Canales, held the town of Jayuya for three days, the Utuado Uprising which culminated in what is known as the " Utuado Massacre ," and the attack on La Fortaleza ( the Puerto Rican governor's mansion ).

Omoa's most striking feature is the Fortaleza de San Fernando de Omoa, an 18th century Spanish fort, though there are actually two forts there.

There are 18 thousand square meters of urbanised area, with coffee bar services, various restaurants, stores, travel agencies, banks, in addition to an auditorium and two memorials: The Porto Memorial and the Fortaleza de São Pedro Nolasco Memorial There is, also, a fluvial station and extensive external area.

Claimed to be the world's largest rapadura, on display on a farm southeast of Fortaleza, Ceara, it took 19, 800 kilograms of sugar cane to produce this block, which is more than 10 square meters and weighs 1, 811 kilograms.

The population of Manaus is 1, 861, 838 inhabitants ( as performed by counting IBGE in 2012 ), making it the seventh largest city in Brazil, after São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasilia, Fortaleza and Belo Horizonte.

At one point he was placed in charge of the Fortaleza Ozama, the famous fort in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, where there is a large statue of him, a gift to that country from a King of Spain.

José Martiniano de Alencar was born in what is today the bairro of Messejana, Fortaleza, Ceará, on May 1, 1829, to priest ( and later senator ) José Martiniano Pereira de Alencar and his cousin Ana Josefina de Alencar.

The San Carlos Fortress ( in Spanish: Fortaleza de San Carlos ) is a fort in the city of Perote, in the Mexican state of Veracruz.

Fortaleza Esporte Clube, usually known as Fortaleza, is primarily a football club, but is active in other sports such as futsal, handball and basketball.

In Fortaleza there are some remaining areas of mangrove, in preserved areas.

According to the 2010 IBGE Census, there were 2, 315, 116 people residing in the city of Fortaleza.

It was played 511 times, and Ceará won it 174 times, Fortaleza won 156 times and there were 176 draws.

Ceará Sporting Club, or Ceará, as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Fortaleza in Ceará, founded on June 2, 1914.

Ferroviário Atlético Clube, or Ferroviário as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Fortaleza in Ceará, founded on May 9, 1933.

Eric Gramond set the distance record when he went 419. 9 km ( 226 Nm ), crossing from Fortaleza to Parnaíba in Brazil during 24 hours on October 12, 2008.

In 1922, Fortaleza reached its first hundred thousand inhabitants with the annexation of the cities of Messejana and Parangaba, now important districts of the city.

There Botafogo, coached by Mário Zagallo, defeated Fortaleza EC in the finals, which were held in Septemnber and October 1969, 4-0 after 2-2 in the first leg.

1539 – Construction of the first harbor defenses at El Morro and La Fortaleza authorized by King Charles V.

1539-Construction of the first fortified defenses at Castillo San Felipe del Morro and La Fortaleza, with batteries aimed at the harbor entrance.

Among these is Nação Iracema, founded in 2002 by Lúcia Simão and William Augusto Pereira, heads of the first black family in Fortaleza to direct a maracatu nation ( current as of 2009 ).

The following year ( 1981 ), he participated in the 6th Hobie Fourteen Worlds in Fortaleza, Brazil where he came first.

Monte Hacho is located on the Península de Almina and topped by a fort, the Fortaleza de Hacho, which was first built by the Byzantines, before being added to by the Arabs, Portuguese and Spanish.

Mentalize was released in Brasil and Japan first, at the end of 2009 and a tour started in Brazil, having concerts in Rio de Janeiro, Recife, São Paulo, Fortaleza and some other cities.

Fortaleza has a typical tropical climate, specifically a tropical wet and dry climate, with high temperatures and high relative humidity throughout the year.

The city was founded as a fortress on 11 April 1828 by Colonel Ramón Estomba under the orders of Brigadier-General and subsequent Governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, being named Fortaleza Protectora Argentina ( Argentine Protective Fortress ), intended to protect inhabitants from cattle rustlers, and also to protect the coast from the Brazilian navy, which had landed in the area the previous year.

TACV flies daily international flights from Lisbon to Sal or Praia and once a week from Amsterdam, Munich, Paris, Las Palmas, Fortaleza and Boston to one or other of the international airports.

When they were expelled from Ceará, the Portuguese renamed it to Fortaleza de Nossa Senhora da Assunção.

In 1799, the Province of Ceará was separated from the Province of Pernambuco and Fortaleza was chosen as its capital.

Attractions include the Portuguese-built Fortaleza de São José da Amura barracks from the 18th century, containing Amílcar Cabral's mausoleum, the Pidjiguiti Memorial to the dockers killed in the Bissau Dockers ' Strike on August 3, 1959, the Guinea-Bissau National Arts Institute, Bissau New Stadium and local beaches.

Following the Pan-American highway north from Lima, the territory of the region of Ancash begins just beyond the Fortress of Paramonga, between wide fields of sugarcane, and across the Fortaleza River, < span style =" white-space: nowrap "> 206 kilometres ( 128 mi )</ span > from Lima.

Along the coast of Ancash, from the Fortaleza River to the Santa River, the Pacific exerts great influence.

* On the turn 2010 / 2011, polish kayaker Aleksander Doba crossed from Dakar ( Africa-Senegal ) to Fortaleza ( South America-Brasil )

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The club was founded on October 18, 1918, emerged from an earlier club called Stella, under the name Fortaleza Sporting Club.

The road from Fortaleza to Jericoacoara presents beaches and rustic villages.

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Crato is about 550 km from Fortaleza, capital of Ceará.

It is located 180 km from Fortaleza, its capital.

The theater faces east, across from Plaza de Colón, on Fortaleza Street, and was constructed in 1824.

Crateús is about 350 km from Fortaleza, Capital of Ceará.