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Beach Park’s water roller coaster put Brazil in the Guinness World Records by reaching 28 meters in height in Aquiraz, Ceará, surpassing the former record holder from the United States and making the park home to the tallest attraction of its kind on the planet.
Water roller coaster now has a new record-holding address in the world, and it’s in Brazil. The Surreal attraction, at Beach Park, in Aquiraz, on the coast of Ceará, was recognized by Guinness World Records on April 29 as the tallest on the planet in its category, at 28 meters high, surpassing the Tsunami Surge, in the United States, which is 26 meters.
According to the CNN Brasil portal, what makes this achievement gain more weight than a simple park title is the scale of the turnaround. Brazil not only entered the Guinness with a new water roller coaster, but took an international record from the USA with an attraction that was already being treated as the biggest bet in Aqua Park’s history. And the detail that pushes the story to another level is that the ride also became a new postcard for leisure tourism in Ceará.
The strongest detail is the height that put the roller coaster on top of the world
The number that underpins the entire news is straightforward: 28 meters. It was this measurement that led Surreal to be certified as the world’s tallest water roller coaster and unseat the then American record holder. The Guinness endorsement solidified Beach Park’s position in a global competition that had previously been dominated by international parks.
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The strength of the record becomes even greater when considering the scale of the investment. According to Beach Park, the attraction required approximately R$ 30 million and became the largest ever built in Aqua Park’s history. Inaugurated in March 2025, it was presented from the outset as a central piece of the park’s expansion.
The curious twist is that the attraction blends surf visuals, beach views, and continuous acceleration
Surreal didn’t just attract attention for its height. The course was designed to transform the experience into something more cinematic, with a visual narrative inspired by surfing, translucent sections, tight turns, water jet boosts, and a descent that begins after an ascent with panoramic beach views.
In total, the experience lasts about 1 minute and 17 seconds, on a route of over 340 meters, with rafts that can reach 42 km/h. This combination helps explain why the new roller coaster quickly became one of the park’s most sought-after attractions and led Aqua Park to launch, for the first time, an exclusive fast pass system for it.
The record comes at a time when Beach Park was already growing in visibility and flow
The Guinness achievement didn’t come from a park off the radar. Beach Park already ranks among the most visited water parks in Latin America and the Caribbean, with approximately 850,000 visitors in 2024, according to the TEA Global Experience Index cited by industry outlets. At the same time, TEA itself highlighted stable growth in the global attractions market in its latest report.
This helps amplify the weight of the news. The new roller coaster arrives not just as a large-scale ride, but as an asset that reinforces the Ceará complex’s position in an increasingly competitive tourism market. In other words, the record doesn’t just serve to generate headlines: it strengthens Beach Park as an international entertainment destination.
Why this record can change the game for leisure tourism in Ceará
The impact of this achievement goes beyond the park. When Brazil becomes home to the world’s tallest aquatic roller coaster, Ceará gains a new argument for national and international projection, capable of attracting visitors seeking record-breaking experiences and reinforcing the state’s image as a leisure tourism hub.
This effect tends to spread because Beach Park is not just a water park. The complex already brings together resorts, gastronomic facilities, and other entertainment fronts, which extends the tourist’s stay and transforms a record-breaking attraction into a driver for consumption, accommodation, and regional circulation. The opening of the Ohana Beach Park Resort, a project with 218 accommodations announced by the group, precisely reinforces this expansion movement.
What also stands out regarding the record is the scale of Beach Park’s bet
Surreal was already considered by Beach Park as the biggest attraction in Aqua Park’s history even before Guinness. Now, with the official seal, the tendency is for it to gain even more weight in the complex’s commercial and image strategy, especially at a time when new accommodation and experience offerings continue to be added to the destination.
This means that the record doesn’t end the story, but opens another phase. The record-breaking aquatic roller coaster arrives as a symbol of a larger offensive, in which the park tries to combine novelty, scale, international recognition, and infrastructure expansion to sustain the growth of tourism on the Ceará coast.
In the end, what Guinness recognized was not just the height of a ride. What entered the record book was a move capable of placing Brazil at the top of a global dispute, taking a symbolic title from the United States, and transforming Beach Park into the home of the world’s tallest aquatic roller coaster. And this type of milestone usually does more than impress: it tends to attract new visitors, new investments, and a new dimension for the destination.
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