Cajueiro da Praia is one of the four coastal cities of
Piauí
Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...
,
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
The municipality contains part of the
Delta do Parnaíba Environmental Protection Area
The Delta do Parnaíba Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Delta do Parnaíba) is a federally-administered Environmental protection area (Brazil), environmental protection area that covers parts of the coasts of the s ...
, created in 1996.
The city is home to the Cashew of A Praia (''Cajueiro da Praia''), which is either the largest cashew tree in the world, at , or the second largest, after the
Cashew of Pirangi
The Cashew of Pirangi (''Cajueiro de Pirangi''), also called the world's largest cashew tree (''maior cajueiro do mundo''), is a cashew tree in Pirangi do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.State University of Piauí.