The
Dunas State Park Journalist Luiz Maria Alves (
Portuguese: Parque Estadual das Dunas de Natal Jornalista Luiz Maria Alves) is a considered the second largest
urban park in
Brazil. The park is best known simply as "Parque das Dunas" (Dunes Park), or "Bosque dos Namorados" (Valentine's Woods), is a reserve of 1,172 hectares of
Atlantic Forest and
dunes in the heart of the city of
Natal, capital of the
Brazilian state of
Rio Grande do Norte in the
Northeast Region of the country.