Baía Formosa
Municipality in Northeast, Brazil
![Flag of Baía Formosa](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Bandeira_de_Ba%C3%ADa_Formosa-RN%2C_Brasil.png/100px-Bandeira_de_Ba%C3%ADa_Formosa-RN%2C_Brasil.png)
Flag
![Official seal of Baía Formosa](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Bras%C3%A3o_de_Ba%C3%ADa_Formosa-RN%2C_Brasil.png/100px-Bras%C3%A3o_de_Ba%C3%ADa_Formosa-RN%2C_Brasil.png)
Seal
![Location of Baía Formosa](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/RioGrandedoNorte_Municip_BaiaFormosa.svg/250px-RioGrandedoNorte_Municip_BaiaFormosa.svg.png)
Location of Baía Formosa
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Bandeira_do_Rio_Grande_do_Norte.svg/22px-Bandeira_do_Rio_Grande_do_Norte.svg.png)
(2020 [1])
Baía Formosa (lit. "beautiful bay") is the easternmost city in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte and the first coastal city (going south-north) of that state, lying near the border with Paraíba.
The municipality contains the 7,897-hectare (19,510-acre) Mata da Estrela Private Natural Heritage Reserve.[3]
Notable people
- Ítalo Ferreira, world champion surfer[4]
References
- ^ IBGE 2020
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - UNDP - ^ RPPN Mata Estrela (in Portuguese), ICMBio, retrieved 2016-05-18
- ^ "Cidade natal de Italo Ferreira, Baía Formosa comemora ouro no surfe nas Olimpíadas de Tóquio".
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