Baia Formosa is a very small and quiet village with fishing as the main activity. Now beginning to change started when the surfers from all over Brazil and abroad came to Baia Formosa looking for some of the best surf in the northeast of Brazil. Slowly simple restaurants opened up along with new inns and bars, and it did not take long before progress took its own course. Ever since, each year more and more Brazilians and foreigners alike fall in love with Baia Formosa and come here to settle down permanently and call Baia Formosa their new home.