9 km of beach, 300 days of sun and wind
More than 23 million m² in Camocim, Ceará, between Preá and Barra Grande, 1h to 1h30 from Jericoacoara airport.
Moréias is a protected oasis between the two busiest places on this coast: 9 km of beach inside a 20 km reserve where the rest cannot be built on. The founder arrived by sea, on a downwind, barefoot, and found a magical stretch of nature, guarded by its own conditions: getting here calls for a 4x4, and the journey feels like traveling back in time. Within the farm live the largest private dune field in the region, permanent and winter lagoons, an oasis, 500 hectares of mangrove and a delta where the land ends in an island. Ten landscapes that depend on one another: the forest holds the dune, the dune makes the beach. This is the living farm.
The year is told in two seasons: high season, from June to January, with sun and the wind that made Ceará the world capital of kitesurfing; and winter, from late January to early June, when the rains fill the lagoons between the dunes and the forest turns green, a well-kept secret.
And it is a farm in the literal sense: a manioc flour house, a vegetable garden, agroforestry and ten thousand kilos of cashew nuts a year, harvested on Moréias land by the neighboring communities and shared with them. The roasting is still done by hand, the way it has always been.
Singular landscapes, side by side.
What usually lives far apart lives together here. And it is not scenery: it is life growing.
Dunes
Wetlands and dunes
Beach and sea
Riparian forests
Restinga
Carnauba grove
Mangrove
Interdune lagoons
Tabuleiro/Cashew grove
Delta
From the garden, the agroforest and the sea
It all starts with what the land itself provides: fish from artisanal fishing, vegetables and eggs from the garden and the agroforest, cashew nuts roasted by hand by the community. But Moréias goes beyond farm to table: regenerative cooking is not content to harvest what the land offers, it gives back. Here, using the land and caring for it are the same thing.
The garden that supplies the Moréias table
Not scenery, but life growing
A single farm holds what is usually scattered along the coast of Ceará: the dune and the mangrove, the lagoon born of the rain, the carnauba grove and the riparian forests, the tabuleiro, the delta and the strip of beach. What usually lives far apart lives together here.
And it is not scenery: it is life growing. Since we began caring for it, there are more birds, more reptiles and more mammals than when we arrived, and more than 140 bird species already cataloged. The environmental map is law: dunes, eolianites, mangroves and lagoons remain untouched, and ecological corridors run through everything.
The houses are set back, and that is why a turtle born here can return, 20 or 30 years from now, to build its own nest in the same sand.
The protection reaches beyond the fence: at the initiative of Moréias, the region's ecological tourism zoning became a bill of law, limiting the density of occupation for everyone, ours included. Laws that protect the territory even from its own owners.
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The forest holds the dune, the dune makes the beach.
This is the living farm.
A plural village, alive and real
A participative life
Those who want to take part are welcomed; those who seek quiet are equally respected. Life together grows out of shared values.
Associação Moréias
Whoever buys a house joins in building a community, and helps decide its future.
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/// photographed at MoréiasThe real village came before the project: fishermen, artisan women and the people who have always been here remain at the center of the story. They set the tone of daily life, and it is with them that the farm shares the cashew harvest, the work and the whole year.
The social work came first
The social story came before the real estate story. The first investment, even before the land was acquired, was a mapping of the neighboring communities, Horto d’Água, Sítio, São Mateus. Those already living on the farm had the ownership of their homes recognized and stayed exactly where they were: fifteen families, spread across the territory. Those who work here and those who arrive live side by side, and the founder sums it up: “we want to have a home close to everyone”. The Instituto ties it all together: it is the gateway to work in the region, from a first résumé to a first formal job, across dozens of fronts, kitchen, construction, sports, the vegetable garden, agroforestry, beekeeping. The team stays employed all year round, low season included. And on Saturdays, everyone goes there to play.
Moréias, an off-grid farm
Moréias was born able to generate its own power, treat its own water and care for the waste it produces. Every system was planned from the masterplan on, sized to the capacity of the territory and integrated into the environmental licensing. Among the investments behind this autonomy is the BESS, a latest-generation battery energy storage system, developed with an investment of several million reais.
Power from the sunSolar generation supplies the farm's operation, while storage keeps the systems running.
Water drawn and treated hereDeep artesian wells supply stations that distribute water within drinking-water standards.
Waste that follows its cycleThe central facility separates recyclables, composts organic waste and sustains an operation independent of municipal collection.
A structure that grows in phasesEach new area is sized for its occupation and for the resources available at that point of the farm.
Engineering woven into the landscapeUnderground networks, permeable paving and careful lighting preserve the territory and the night sky.
Documented land, with every environmental license
On a coastline where informal occupation is the rule, Moréias obtained every environmental license, georeferenced 100% of its area and holds definitive ownership of the land. That right extends to each new owner, formalized by a definitive deed and an individual title record, registered at the notary office.
This legal certainty, rare in non-urban areas of Brazil, enables and speeds up financing approvals and makes it simpler to declare the property for income tax. Life in common is organized by the Condominium Convention, the Association Bylaws and the Building Manual, clear rules, the same for everyone. It is the kind of asset that passes on to your children with peace of mind, and the licensing also brought a long period of property tax exemption, detailed in conversation with the Moréias team.
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Moréias sits between the sea and the dunes, within a region that stays alive all around it. A fishing village 10 minutes away along the beach. Shallow-water lagoons with steady wind beside the farm. Farmland at the back. And Camocim as the point of support, across the inlet. All of it is part of the experience of being here.
A preserved fishing village, with pousadas, restaurants and bars. In high season there is always a party at a pousada or a band playing somewhere. The way there is part of the plan: you go along the beach under the stars, have dinner, have a drink and come back.
Lagoa da Torta and Lagoa das Moréias sit right beside the farm. Shallow water and steady wind make them the place where many people choose to learn. Beginners find a calm setting there. Wing foil riders tend to spend the day at Torta.
At the back of Moréias begin the lands of rural producers. It is a neighborhood of people who live off the land, and it gives Moréias the context of sitting within a productive, inhabited landscape.
The town has an old municipal market, shops, health services and one of the main fishing markets on this coast, where tuna and snook come through. Beyond covering what routine asks for, the trip is worth taking as an outing.
There are days for staying inside the farm, from breakfast to sunset. And there are days for going out: a lagoon, a village, dinner somewhere else. Both fit into the same weekend, and that is one of the freedoms of being here.
It grows clearer every day that we have entered a new era. Many of us have realized it is time to sign a new pact with the world. To reimagine the way we do things. In truth, more than a new era, a series of endings.
The end of exploiting without a thought for the consequences. The end of felling trees, sacrificing whole landscapes, polluting rivers and seas. The end of doing everything alone…
And it is in this land of wind that we want to talk about doing things together. The wind seems to air out ideas and projects, it produces energy. It whispers native knowledge, ancestral wisdom.
The wind brings news, calls fishermen and athletes, Brazilians and foreigners. It transforms the landscape, reveals treasures. And how do you measure the wind? In knots. In us. That is why collective thinking is our measure too.
Moréias is a collective dream. We are a community consciousness, rooted, integrated. We believe this is how we will do things well and live all that is good. That we will enjoy ourselves from sun to sun, from wind to wind. Together with people, with animals, with nature.
Fazenda Moréias. A destination created in knots, in us.
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