Juazeiro do Norte Airport

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The Orlando Bezerra de Menezes Airport, in Juazeiro do Norte (CE), due to its strategic location, serves the Center-South of Ceara, Norwest of Pernambuco, Paraiba’s High Semi-Arid, and Southwest of Piaui, representing one of the major instruments for the region’s economic development, as well as the airport location is equidistant to all capital cities of the Brazilian Northeast.
It serves, all year round, the most diversified public duet to the many possibilities of the Cariri region, highlights to religious, business, and ecologic tourism. There is a strong presence in the city of several higher education institutions, in addition to several shoes industries that turn Juazeiro do Norte into the country’s third largest shoes industry pole.
The city also receives large pilgrimages all year round, while the figure of Father Cicero Romao Batista is the predominant factor for pilgrimages. Still, In the Cariri region stands out the Serra do Araripe natural wonders and paleontological treasures.