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Pipa, state Rio Grande do NorteПипа, Рио Гранде ду Норте См. Фото-галерею
They left Goianinha about 4 or 5 a.m to arrive in Pipa about 10 or 11 a.m. Old women traveled on ox car, young women and the youngsters came by horse, of cells, the employees came mounted in the way them loads of the luggage.
The development of Pipa's Beach its very recent, however, very fast. In the last decades, it has being knowing in the world-wide, for its people, its beautiful beaches, with limpid and warm waters and the coves, as the Enseada (Cove) dos Golfinhos (Dolphins), a natural sanctuary of these exotic mammals. They search in the coves of the old Canto's Beach their food and, of course, practise jugglings in air, with an impressive and perfect moviments.
The most trusted theory is that this name had origin when the Portugueses had arrived here and saw a rock that seemed a Barrel, so "Pipa" in the traditional Portuguese of Portugal means barrel, that's why it's called Pipa.
Beyond the beauty of its beaches, like Praia dos Amor, Praia dos Afogados, Praia do Moleque, Pedra do Moleque, Chapadão, Praia da Cancela, Pipa also has preserved Mata Atlântica , first by our ancestor and, since 1917, by Antonio Maria José; the Ecological Sanctuary, where you can see one of the most beautiful views of the Baía dos Golfinhos (Bay of the Dolphins) and the point of the Pipa's Beach.
There is a very important patrimony in Pipa, not much explored yet but great in beauty and in value - THE NATIVE'S MEMORY less knowing than the natural beauty. One does not deduct the beauty from the other but while the natural beauty its exposed by itself , the creation , the imagination or even History of the people is remaining in the memory of the ancestors, need an urgent spreading and defense of the vestiges that they still brings in their brain, that particular moment that lives inside each inhabitant, of the Pipa's culture, where it will be at the section "Culture" in this site.
One event that isn't very remembered, detailed below with proper words of a person who was there.
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