Atlantic Forrest - Paraíba

With its parks and avenues lined with fruit bearing and ornamental trees, João Pessoa also preserves parts of the Atlantic forest in the central area of the city, such as in the Parque da Bica - a zoological and botanical park - and in the Mata do Buraquinho, as well as the coconut palms and various other kinds of tree along the beaches, which attract thousands of tourists every year.

The Atlantic Forest is the second of the most expressive forests in South America, only losing to the Amazon Forest, the largest in the planet. Denominated the Atlantic Rain Forest, it is located in the Serra do Mar escarpment, which is part of the Atlantic Tropical Forestal Domain. This Forestal Domain extends itself for an area relatively parallel to the Brazilian coast, from Rio Grande do Norte to Rio Grande do Sul and is constituted by "seas of hills" and "chapadões" (large tablelands) covered in forest, with deep soils of perennial drainage.