Batoque is the first, and so far, the only Extractivist Reserve of Ceará, (or RESEX), characterized by ecological practices of usage and exploitation that the local population establishes with the land, the lagoon and the sea. Here, 320 families live by the sea, provider of their main source of income – fishing.
The history of community organization, the struggle against real estate speculators and the victory regarding the right over their territory is transmitted throughout generations.
To stroll along the lagoon, taste the collectively cultivated potatoes and have lunch in huts by the beach or lagoon are the main marks of this community, which is concluding its community-based accommodation to take in, for a longer period, the visitors that have been enchanted by the place.
EAST COAST
District of Aquiraz
55 km from Fortaleza