Maior Cajueiro do Mundo



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The world's largest cashew tree (Portuguese -"Maior cajueiro do mundo"), also known as the Pirangi cashew, is located in Pirangi beach in Parnamirim, 12 km south to the capital city of Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). The tree covers an area of approximately 8500 meters, with a perimeter of approximately 500 meters and produces about eighty thousand cashews per year. The cashew was planted in 1888 by a fisherman named Luiz Inácio de Oliveira. He died, aged 93 years, under the shadows of the cashew.

In 1994, the cashew entered the Guinness Book of Records.

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