Kaaysara

Kaaysara lies on the northern coast of Rio Grande do Norte, where the sea meets a country of salt flats and sandy shores. Its name, Caiçara, comes from an Indigenous word for an enclosure. In 1734 Inácio Gomes da Câmara took possession of a tract extending inland from the coast. By the middle of the eighteenth century, settlement had grown around salt making, fishing, cattle raising and crops grown in the surrounding countryside.