Praia do Norte beach സമീപം, fishing village of Nazaré, has become famous worldwide for huge waves in 2011, when Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara set a world-record for the largest വേവ് എപ്പോഴെങ്കിലും surfed 78-കാൽ at the time, in 2017 that record was broken by Brazilian surfer റോഡ്രിഗോ Koxa, setting the bar at 80-foot.