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14 unusual facts about Piauí


4 de Julho Esporte Clube

4 de Julho Esporte Clube, commonly known as 4 de Julho, is a Brazilian football club based in Piripiri, Piauí state.

Associação Atlética Cori-Sabbá

Associação Atlética Cori-Sabbá, commonly known as Cori-Sabbá, is a Brazilian football club based in Floriano, Piauí state.

Caiçara Esporte Clube

Caiçara Esporte Clube, commonly known as Caiçara, is a Brazilian football club based in Campo Maior, Piauí state.

Campo Maior

Campo Maior, Piauí, a municipality in the state of Piauí in the Northeast region of Brazil.

Comercial Atlético Clube

Comercial Atlético Clube, commonly known as Comercial, is a Brazilian football club based in Campo Maior, Piauí state.

Jangada

Today it appears that the jangadas only show up in the northern region of Brazil starting at Rio Grande do Norte and ending at Piauí for curious historic reasons, because we could have jangada sailors all over the Brazilian coast.

José Marcelo Ferreira

José Marcelo Ferreira, aka Zé Maria (born 25 July 1973 in Oeiras, Piauí), is a Brazilian retired footballer, and a current manager.

Oeiras, Piauí

Oeiras is a municipality in the Microregion of Picos of the Brazilian State of Piauí.

Oeiras was elevated to the level of town in 1712, then became the capital of Piauí in 1759.

Piauí

Early settlers in the region included Domingos Jorge Velho, from São Paulo state, who brought the first herds of cattle to the area; and Domingos Afonso Mafrense, from Portugal, who founded what is today Oeiras.

Princesa do Sul Futebol Clube

Princesa do Sul Futebol Clube, commonly known as Princesa do Sul, is a Brazilian football club based in Floriano, Piauí state.

Salomão Mazuad Salha

Salomão Salha (born November 25, 1972 in Floriano, Brazil), also simply as Salomão, is a former naturalized Lebanese football midfielder.

School Sacred Heart of Jesus

School Sacred Heart of Jesus is located in the city of Teresina, Piauí State, Brazil.

Wellington Dias

José Wellington Barroso de Araújo Dias, known as Wellington Dias, (born March 5, 1962, in Oeiras, Piauí) is a Brazilian politician, the former Governor of Piauí, and a federal Senator representing Piauí.


Cithaeronidae

Three adult females of C. praedonius were found in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.

Faculdade Novafapi

Faculdade Novafapi is a higher education institution located in Teresina, capital of the Brazilian state of Piauí.

Niède Guidon

Niède Guidon is the head archaeologist at the Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí, Brazil where she and her colleagues have discovered over 800 pre-historic sites concerned with the occupation of America by human beings.

Panthera onca mesembrina

Fossils have been uncovered from Cueva del Mylodon, Chile, Piaui, Brazil, and north to Adams County, Washington.

Parnaíba

Portinho Lagoon is one of the most beautiful landscapes of Piauí and the advantage that the blue waters can turn green depending on the light of the sun, the dunes, surrounding a whiff of fresh water, ideal for practicing water sports on banana boat, jet skiing and windsurfing

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.

São João da Fronteira

Fronteiras (Portuguese meaning Saint John of the frontier) is a municipality in the western part of the state of Piauí in Brazil.

Sociedade Esportiva Picos

Sociedade Esportiva Picos, commonly known as Picos, is a Brazilian football club based in Picos, Piauí state.