In 1650, a navigator named Francisco Ayres da Cunha, portugues, coming from his country to expand colonies on the Brazilian Coast, broke his ship due to the stranding on rocks near the region of "Ponta Grossa". Looking for a way out, finally the ship fails in Canoa Quebrada, and more exactly at the tip of the Estevão (ponta do Estêvão.) His ship in bad conditions was given to the master Simon (Simão) who was living in Aracati. The fishmen of the village didn't know anything else except small boats, canoes and jangades; When they came to repair the ship, they said : "We will broke the Canoe". From this time, the name of Canoa Quebrada appeared.
Today,beyond of the sublime landscape, the mains attractions of Canoa Quebrada to take profit of the warming sun, are the trips in the dunes of the beach in Buggy, to admire the ruddy cliffs and to drown an intense warmth in a refreshing diving in calm waters of this ocean of an almost blue green. Reserve a day to navigate on the jangades (jangadas), another to ride on a horse and rush about on the beach and forget the time, letting the wind to guide you in the almost uninhabited dunes.
When the sun begins lying down in the ocean of Canoa, you should run at the top of a dune and from there, you will watch one of the most fantastic shows from the North East. It is said that the passionate couples who admire this sunset, marry later. After this "SPA", take back your energy because this is during the night that Canoa is the warmest.