Caucaia
Caucaia is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Ceará.
Caucaia is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Ceará. As of 2025, it had a population of 378,406. It is home to the Tapeba tribe, a native group organized in 17 villages around the metropolitan region of Fortaleza. Caucaia has the second biggest GDP in Ceara state, thanks to the industries surrounding the port of Pecem, which attract several investors interested in installing offshore windfarms and desalination plants in the municipality.
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Getting to Caucaia
- Airports
- Pinto Martins (FOR), 15 km
- Natal → Caucaia445 km · quickest by air, 4h 56m · R$370–580
- João Pessoa → Caucaia563 km · quickest by air, 4h 37m · R$380–590
- São Luís → Caucaia641 km · quickest by air, 4h 44m · R$400–630
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Caucaia
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Caucaia. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe city is best covered by bus and cab, but a car can make many day trips to outlying beaches.
- Go nextAny tour agency, and a number of pushers along Beira Mar, can offer you daytrips, and longer packages, to outlying beaches.
- Go nextCan be done as a day trip (R$ 40, many agencies), but is worth a longer stay, particularly for its weekend nightlife.
- Go nextTour agencies in Fortaleza arrange day trips at about R$ 25.
From Wikivoyage: Fortaleza, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Caucaia
Caucaia is 12 km from Fortaleza, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.