Natal is a Brazilian city, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, located in the metropolitan region of Natal, the micro-Natal, the Eastern mesoregion Pole Potiguar and Costa das Dunas.
The city was the river banks Potenji and the Forte dos Reis Magos, the far-northeastern Brazil in a region called "corner of the continent" to 2507 km away from Brasilia. It is known as the "City of the Sun" or "Bride of the Sun" as one of the locations with the highest number of days of sun in Brazil, reaching approximately three hundred.
Also call the "Space Capital of Brazil" because of the operations of the first rocket base in South America, the Centro de Barreira do Inferno Launch of the neighboring municipality of Parnamirim.
It is the Brazilian capital closer to the European continent and is situated in a natural sort of triangle with a vertex to the north, which is bathed on one side by the Rio Potenji and another by the Atlantic Ocean, receiving constant winds, a condition that gave him the title , according to NASA, the city that holds the air cleaner and renewable of the South American continent. It is located on the coast of the state, mainly in a region surrounded by dunes with an average altitude of thirty-three meters above sea level.