Aracati · Ceará · since 2001
Mirante das Gamboas
Hotel, water park and restaurant on the banks of the Jaguaribe. Twenty-five years of shade and cool water, 12 km from Canoa Quebrada.
- Founded
- 2001
- From Canoa Quebrada
- 12 km
- Room types
- 5
- Auditorium
- 120 seats
01 The resort
Not a hotel with a pool.
Four places at one address, and you can fill a whole day without repeating any of them. That is how Mirante became a fixed stop for anyone driving Ceará’s east coast.
The resort opened in 2001 to answer something Aracati already had and could not yet handle: visitors worth looking after. It grew by adding — rooms first, then the park, the restaurant and the auditorium.
It works both ways now. Guests get the water park at their front door. People who live nearby come to spend a Sunday and drive home at dusk.
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Hotel
Apartments and chalets with a porch, a hammock and air conditioning.
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Water park
Slides for adults and children, pools, water toys and a swim-up bar.
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Restaurant
Regional cooking alongside seafood, grills and pizza.
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Auditorium
A hundred and twenty seats for conferences and parties.
02 Water park
The loud part.
Nobody asks for quiet here. The park is why most families come — and why they come back the following year.
An adult pool and a children’s pool, slides in both sizes, jet toys, a swim-up bar so nobody has to leave the water, and the waterfall at the far end. Children learn their way around in ten minutes and stop needing anyone.
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Adult slide
A long drop, a tight bend and a landing straight into the big pool.
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Children’s slide
Low and wide, for anyone still working up to it.
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Adult pool
A broad stretch of water, with loungers and shade around it.
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Children’s pool
Shallow, with jet toys, a slide and figures painted on the floor.
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Swim-up bar
A counter in the water. No need to dry off to order.
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Waterfall
A stone wall and falling water at the pool’s edge.
A Sunday at the park
Photographs from the resort’s own archive. Areas are maintained and colours may change between seasons.
03 Rooms
Five ways to stay.
All of them with a porch, a hammock already strung and the park a short walk away. What separates them is the size of the family and how much bathtub you want.
Apartments sit in the two-storey block; chalets are spread through the garden. The superior chalets have double-height ceilings and a wrought-iron spiral stair, with the upstairs suite kept separate from the rest of the house.
01 Apartment up to 4 guests
Living room, bedroom, bathroom and porch in the two-storey block, close to reception and the restaurant.
2 in the living room, with a fan · 2 in the bedroom, with AC
02 Chalet up to 4 guests
A free-standing single-storey house in the garden, with its own porch and a hammock strung out front.
2 in the living room, with a fan · 2 in the bedroom, with AC
03 Chalet with whirlpool up to 4 guests
The same chalet, with a whirlpool bath and a reversible-door bathroom.
2 in the living room, with a fan · 2 in the bedroom, with AC
04 Superior Chalet up to 6 guests
Double-height ceilings and a spiral stair. The upstairs suite stands on its own, with its own AC, minibar, TV and telephone.
2 in the living room · 2 in the lower bedroom · 2 in the upstairs suite
05 Superior Chalet with whirlpool up to 6 guests
The largest layout on the grounds, with a whirlpool in the upstairs suite.
2 in the living room · 2 in the lower bedroom · 2 in the upstairs suite
In every room
- Porch with hammock
- Air conditioning
- Minibar
- TV
- Hot shower
- Telephone
- Wi-Fi
- Private bathroom
04 Restaurant and snack bar
The table.
Real regional cooking, next to seafood, grills and pizza. Nobody has to leave the grounds to eat well.
The restaurant serves guests and visitors alike. The snack bar and the shop cover the middle of the afternoon, and the swim-up bar takes care of anyone unwilling to leave the pool.
- Carne de sol Northeastern salt-cured beef, with the usual sides.
- Free-range chicken Slow-cooked, the way the interior does it.
- Stewed lamb A house classic.
- Feijoada The full version.
- Seafood Prawns and fish, by the platter or the portion.
- Grills and pizza Barbecue, grilled cuts and a wood-fired oven.
05 Grounds
The rest of the day.
What to do once the children finally get out of the water.
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Fishing lake
A saltwater lagoon with a pergola and a walkway.
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Games room
For the hottest stretch of the afternoon.
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Sports area
A court and a pitch inside the grounds.
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Running track
A full loop around the property.
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Shop
Whatever you forgot, without driving into town.
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Snack bar
Open between meals.
06 Events
A hundred and twenty seats.
An auditorium with a back-of-house room, audiovisual equipment and Wi-Fi — for company conferences, staff parties and social occasions.
What makes an event work here is everything around it: rooms on the same grounds, a restaurant for the break and a water park for anyone who brought the family along.
- Capacity
- 120 people
- Support
- Back-of-house room
- Equipment
- Audiovisual and Wi-Fi
07 Nearby
What is around it.
The resort sits on the Estrada do Cumbe, between the Jaguaribe river and the east coast. By car, almost everything worth seeing is under half an hour away.
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Canoa Quebrada
12 kmThe right wind for watersports, buggy rides over the dunes, and the Broadway strip after dark.
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Historic Aracati
The old houses on Rua Coronel Alexandrino, the Church of Nosso Senhor do Bomfim, the Casa da Câmara and the Museu Jaguaribano.
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Majorlândia
White and red cliffs, coloured sands and local craftwork.
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Quixaba
One of the finest stops in Ceará. It stages the Passion play at Easter.
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Fontainha
A beach of disarming wildness, rough sea, white and yellow cliffs and the garganta do diabo.
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Lagoa do Mato
20 kmAmong the prettiest and quietest lagoons in the district.
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Jaguaribe river
A boat trip along Ceará’s largest river, past the Pedra do Chapéu, the mangroves and the Canal do Amor.
08 Contact and booking
Come for the day.
Or the week. The reservations desk answers by phone and WhatsApp, and the restaurant has its own line.