Restinga Island

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The Ilha da Restinga is a river island in the estuary of the River Paraíba do Norte in Brazil just before it flows into the South Atlantic.

The 5.3 square kilometers, now uninhabited island is the city of Cabedelo upstream west in the state of Paraíba. Restinga is in Brazilian Portuguese the name for a country's own form of tropical rain forest, which sporadically occurs on the coast. Mangroves make up a substantial part of the vegetation. The avifauna is characterized by diversity: Snowy Egret, marble herons, egrets strip, Cocoireiher, scarlet macaw, American bittern, Morning Bunting, Kiskadee, Moorhen are some. In addition to fishing, there are crustaceans such as crabs and shrimp.

The situation in the far east of the subcontinent have made ​​the Ilha da Restinga to the Age of Discovery interesting. For the first time on a map she was listed in 1587. Supposedly the late 16th or early 17th century, the cultivation of sugar cane have been trying to finally successful resistance of the native Potiguaras. Contrast, did not help the construction started in 1579, according to other sources 1585 a fort by a Portuguese named Colonel Manuel de Azevedo.

To the west of the current accumulation over half privately owned island, which bore different names in historical time, a number of shipwrecks have been discovered.