Editing Fortaleza (section)

==Tourism==
{{see also|Tourism in Brazil}}
[[File:Beach_Park.jpg|thumb|Beach Park is the largest water park in Latin America]]
Acquario Ceará, due to be one of the largest oceanariums in Brazil, is currently under construction.<ref>{{cite news |title=Obra de aquário encalha em praia famosa de Fortaleza |url=https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/haus/estilo-cultura/acquario-ceara-obra-de-aquario-encalha-em-praia-famosa-de-fortaleza/ |access-date=31 May 2019 |publisher=[[Gazeta do Povo]] |date=26 April 2019 |location=[[Coritiba]] |language=pt |format=Haus}}</ref> Attractions such as the [[Beach Park (water park)|Beach Park]] theme park, located in the Great Fortaleza, Avenida Beira Mar and its bars, restaurants and music clubs, the beaches of Futuro and Iracema and Pirata Bar have placed Fortaleza among the Brazilian destinations preferred by Europeans.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/travel/20nebrazil.html?_r=0|title=Slowing the Pace Along Brazil's Coast|date=20 February 2005|newspaper=New York Times}}</ref>

[[Scuba diving]] is possible in the area of [[Pedra da Risca do Meio Marine State Park]], a [[marine protected area]] located about 10 [[nautical mile]]s from the shoreline of Fortaleza.<ref>{{citation |title=Gestão de unidades de conservação marinhas: o caso do Parque Estadual Marinho da Pedra da Risca do Meio, NE – Brasil |last1=Soares |first1=Marcelo de Oliveira |first2=Carolina Cerqueira de |last2=Paiva |first3=João Eduardo Pereira de |last3=Freitas |first4=Tito Monteiro da Cruz |last4=Lotufo |journal=Revista da Gestão Costeira Integrada |volume=11 |issue=2 |year=2011 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271229609 |access-date=2016-11-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161129022402/https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tito_Lotufo/publication/271229609_Gestao_de_unidades_de_conservacao_marinhas_o_caso_do_Parque_Estadual_Marinho_da_Pedra_da_Risca_do_Meio_NE_-_Brasil/links/54da2f9c0cf2970e4e7e3fb4.pdf?origin=publication_list |archive-date=November 29, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Fortaleza has about {{convert|25|km|mi}} of urban beaches.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The better beaches of Fortaleza, Brazil|url=https://www.aeroportofortaleza.net/en/tourism/the-better-beaches-of-fortaleza-brazil|access-date=2021-07-18|website=Fortaleza International Airport|language=en-US}}</ref> Mucuripe is the place where [[jangada]]s can be found. Still used by fishermen to go into high seas, jangadas can be seen along the way during the afternoon and evenings, and returning from the sea in the morning; part of the catch of the day is sold in an old-style fish market.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.feriasbrasil.com.br/ce/fortaleza/mucuripe.cfm|title=Mucuripe, Fortaleza - Veja dicas no Férias Brasil|access-date=December 10, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220123052/http://www.feriasbrasil.com.br/ce/fortaleza/mucuripe.cfm|archive-date=December 20, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>