São Paulo do Potengi is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the Northeast region of Brazil.

history The village was elevated to the category of town, under the government of the intervenor Rafael Fernandes Gurjão, through Decree-Law nº 603, of December 31, 1938, being installed on January 1, 1939, with the inauguration of the first sub-mayor, Manoel Henrique de Azevedo.

[5] Its political independence would only be achieved through the intervention of General Antônio Fernandes Dantas, with the creation of the municipality by Decree-Law No.

exercise of interventor, and whose installation took place on January 1, 1944, with the inauguration of the first municipal mayor, Severino Raul Gadelha.

He was elected mayor in 1948 and governed until 1953, returning to command the municipality from 1958 to 1963; Sebastião Marinho was appointed in 1945, stepping down after five months.