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9 unusual facts about Maranhão


Aline de Lima

Aline de Lima, born October 23, 1978 in Caxias, Brazil, is a Brazilian singer, writer and composer.

Izi Castro Marques

Iziane "Izi" Castro Marques (born March 13, 1982 in São Luís, Maranhão) is a Brazilian professional basketball player.

Rodrigo Lindoso

Rodrigo Oliveira Lindoso known as Rodrigo Lindoso, (born 6 June 1989 in São Luís, Maranhão) is a Brazilian professional footballer, who plays as a Midfielder for Marítimo in Portugal.

Sabiá Futebol Clube

Sabiá Futebol Clube, commonly known as Sabiá, is a Brazilian football club based in Caxias, Maranhão state.

SACI-2

It was launched on 11 December 1999 from the INPE base in Alcântara, Maranhão, by the Brazilian VLS-1 V02 rocket.

Saya Woolfalk

She has received a number of prestigious awards including a Fulbright for research in Maranhão, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, an Art Matters Grant and has been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum, University at Buffalo, Yaddo, Sculpture Space and Dieu Donne Papermill.

Vanderley Dias Marinho

Vanderley Dias Marinho or Derley for short (born 29 December 1987 in São Luís, Maranhão) is a Brazilian professional footballer, who plays as a forward for Marítimo in Portugal.

Vanger

Vanger Conceição da Silva (born 27 January 1987 in São Luís), or simply Vanger, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Tombense.

VLS-1 V03

On August 22, 2003, at 13:30 (local time) an explosion destroyed the launch vehicle as it stood on its launch pad at the Alcântara Launch Center in the state of Maranhão in northern Brazil.


2009 flu pandemic in Brazil

On June 27, 69 more cases were confirmed: 34 of them in São Paulo, 8 in Rio de Janeiro, 7 in Rio Grande do Sul, 7 in Paraná, 4 in Minas Gerais, 2 in Distrito Federal, 2 in Santa Catarina, 2 in Espírito Santo, 1 in Pará, 1 in Maranhão and the first in Amazonas.

On June 22, 25 more cases were confirmed, which increases the number of cases to 240: 15 of them in São Paulo, 3 in Espírito Santo, 3 in Santa Catarina, 2 in Distrito Federal, 1 in Minas Gerais and the first case in Maranhão.

Bacabal Esporte Clube

Bacabal Esporte Clube, also known as Bacabal, are a Brazilian football team from Bacabal, Maranhão.

Bacurí

Bacuri River, a river of Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil

Belagua

Belágua, a town and municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil

Candomblé Jejé

The various ethnic groups as Fon, Ewe, Fante, Ashanti, mine to come in Brazil, were called "djedje", deployed here in your worship Salvador, Cachoeira and São Félix in Bahia, and São Luís of Maranhão, then spread itself to several Brazilian states.

Cinnamon Attila

Its range stays contiguous along the Caribbean coast through the Guianas and only ends south and southeast of the Amazon River outlet with Marajo Island, and the outlet of the downstream Tocantins River, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão on the Atlantic coast.

Cordino Esporte Clube

Cordino Esporte Clube, commonly known as Cordino, is a Brazilian football club based in Barra do Corda, Maranhão state.

Dinoponera gigantea

Dinoponera gigantea has been found on the coast of Guyana, in the Brazilian states of Amazonas, Pará including Marajo Island, Mato Grosso and Maranhão as well as the Loreto Province in Peru.

Dusky Parrot

Other limits to Dusky Parrot's range is northwest Maranhão state Brazil, Baia de Sao Marcos; also in the southeast Amazon Basin, the confluence of the northern flowing Araguaia-Tocantins River.

Genocide of indigenous peoples

The Truth Commission is of the opinion that entire tribes in Maranhão were completely eradicated and in Mato Grosso, an attack on thirty Cinturão Largo left only two survivors.

Jackson Lago

Born in the municipality of Pedreiras, Maranhão, Jackson Lago began his political career in the late 1960s, participating in events against the military dictatorship.

Johan Nieuhof

Nieuhoff was employed in Brazil to explore the regions between Maranhão and the São Francisco Rivers, made a particular study of the neighborhood of Pernambuco.

JV Lideral Futebol Clube

JV Lideral Futebol Clube, also known as JV Lideral, are a Brazilian football team from Imperatriz, Maranhão state.

Marília Futebol Clube

Marília Futebol Clube, commonly known as Marília, is a Brazilian football club based in Imperatriz, Maranhão state.

Oenocarpus bacaba

The city of Bacabal in Maranhão was so called because of the large amount of existing Bacaba fruit there.

Oxalaia

Oxalaia is known from the holotype MN 6117-V, fused premaxillae of a very large individual and from the referred fragment MN 6119-V, an isolated and incomplete left maxilla, which were found on Cajual Island, Maranhão of northeastern Brazil.

Parnaíba-Prefeito Dr. João Silva Filho International Airport

The airport is located on a privileged area with great touristic potential, near the municipalities of Camocim e Jericoacoara, in Ceará, the delta of river Parnaíba, in Piauí, and Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Maranhão.

Ringed Antpipit

The range of the Ringed Antpipit is the entire Amazon Basin, the Guianan region, Marajó Island, and the southeast Orinoco River Basin region in eastern Venezuela; also the downstream half of the neighboring Amazon Basin river system in the southeast, the Araguaia-Tocantins River, with the range ending easterly on the Atlantic coast of Brazil's Maranhão state.

Santa Quiteria

Santa Quitéria do Maranhão a town and municipality in the state of Maranhão, Brazil

Santa Quitéria Futebol Clube

Santa Quitéria Futebol Clube, commonly known as Santa Quitéria, is a Brazilian football club based in Santa Quitéria do Maranhão, Maranhão state.

Sociedade Esportiva Nacional

Sociedade Esportiva Nacional, commonly known as Nacional, is a Brazilian football club based in Santa Inês, Maranhão state.

Sociedade Imperatriz de Desportos

Sociedade Imperatriz de Desportos, commonly known as Imperatriz, is a Brazilian football club based in Imperatriz, Maranhão state.

Tocantins Esporte Clube

Tocantins Esporte Clube, commonly known as Tocantins, is a Brazilian football club based in Imperatriz, Maranhão state.

Tocantins River

Two other tributaries, called the Maranhão and Paranatinga, collect an immense volume of water from the highlands which surround them, especially on the south and south-east.

Ubirajara Fidalgo

Ubirajara Fidalgo started his career yet teenager in his hometown Caxias municipality in the state of the Maranhão and died in Rio de Janeiro on 3 July 1986.

White-tailed Cotinga

The White-tailed Cotinga's southeast Amazon Basin range encompasses the lower drainage, (about one third), of the Tocantins-Araguaia River system, and ends in the east at the Atlantic Ocean in the state of Maranhão.


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