The Capital of the state, by its tourist importance and its 500 years of history represents by herself a region.
The city possesses a population of about 800.000 persons, 30% of the population of the state, with a strong human density in the north part of Natal. The city is limited in the East by the sea lined by a strip of dunes 'Park das dunas' with 12 km containing a reserve of 'Mata Atlantica' and on the West by the meanders of 'Rio Potengi' occupied by mangrove swamps.
In the South you can observe the Ponta Negra beach and its very high dune 'Morro do careca' and in the North the Genipabu dunes.
