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unusual facts about Assu, Rio Grande do Norte


Associação Sportiva Sociedade Unida

Associação Sportiva Sociedade Unida, commonly known as ASSU, is a Brazilian football club from Assu, Rio Grande do Norte state.


Associação Cultural e Desportiva Potyguar Seridoense

Associação Cultural e Desportiva Potyguar Seridoense, commonly known as Potyguar de Currais Novos or Potyguar Seridoense, is a Brazilian football club based in Currais Novos, Rio Grande do Norte state.

Associação Cultural Esporte Clube Baraúnas

Associação Cultural Esporte Clube Baraúnas, or Baraúnas as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from Mossoró in Rio Grande do Norte, founded on January 14, 1960.

Atlético Clube Coríntians

Atlético Clube Coríntians, or Coríntians, as they are usually called, is a soccer club based in the city Caicó in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.

Clube Centenário Pauferrense

Clube Centenário Pauferrense, commonly known as Centenário Pauferrense, is a Brazilian football club based in Pau dos Ferros, Rio Grande do Norte state.

Flag of Rio Grande do Norte

The arms features the basic elements that best represents Rio Grande do Norte: the coconut tree on the left, the Copernicia prunifera on the right, the sugarcane and the cotton, represents the flora.

Fleur de sel

Brazil has also started producing some flor de sal in the traditional salt-producing area of Mossoró, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, and iodized, as mandated by Brazilian law for all salt intended for direct human consumption.

Hemigrapsus

The natural range of the genus is restricted to the Pacific Ocean, except for Hemigrapsus affinis which lives along the Atlantic coasts of South America, from Cape São Roque (Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil) to the San Matías Gulf, (Patagonia, Argentina).

Iberian Union

The Seventeen Provinces captured a large portion of the Brazilian coast including Bahia (and its capital Salvador), Pernambuco (and its capital Recife), Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, and Sergipe, while Dutch privateers sacked Portuguese ships in both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Jangada

Today it appears that the jangadas only show up in the northern region of Brazil starting at Rio Grande do Norte and ending at Piauí for curious historic reasons, because we could have jangada sailors all over the Brazilian coast.

Mimosa tenuiflora

Mimosa hostilis (Jurema, Tepezcohuite) is a perennial tree or shrub native to the northeastern region of Brazil (Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceará, Pernambuco, Bahia) and found as far north as southern Mexico (Oaxaca and coast of Chiapas).

Palmeira Futebol Clube da Una

Palmeira Futebol Clube da Una, commonly known as Palmeira, is a Brazilian football club based in Goianinha, Rio Grande do Norte state.

Potenji River

The Potenji River (Portuguese: Rio Potenji), meaning "river of the shrimps" in Tupi, is the principal river in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil).

Potiguar Esporte Clube

Potiguar Esporte Clube, commonly known as Potiguar de Parnamirim, is a Brazilian football men's and women's club based in Parnamirim, Rio Grande do Norte state.

Rio Grande do Norte

Rocas Atoll in the Atlantic Ocean, 260 km Northeast of Natal, also belongs to the state of Rio Grande do Norte.

Rocas Atoll, the only such feature in the Atlantic Ocean, is part of the state.

Sociedade Esportiva Pauferrense

Sociedade Esportiva Pauferrense, commonly known as Pauferrense, is a Brazilian football club based in Pau dos Ferros, Rio Grande do Norte state.

Sport Club Santa Cruz

Sport Club Santa Cruz, also known as Santa Cruz, are a Brazilian football team from Santa Cruz, Rio Grande do Norte.


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