Home of the largest market in the Northeast, CARUARU is also ideally placed for excursions into the sertão. Saturday is the main market day, but Wednesday and Friday are busy, too.
People come from all over the Northeast for the market, which dominates the town, with stalls filling the squares and people clogging the streets. […]
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