Zwarte Piet, companion of Saint Nicholas in the folklore and legends of the Netherlands and Flanders
With his robber band 'De Zwarte Bende' he made his home in the vast and impenetrable Slabroek forests near Uden.
Rocks of this class also occur in Brazil (Serra de Tingua) containing sodalite and often much augite, in the western Sahara and Cape Verde Islands; also at Zwarte Koppies in the Transvaal, Madagascar, São Paulo in Brazil, Paisano Pass in West Texas and Montreal, Canada.
The most important of these waterways is of course river IJssel; others include the Zwarte Water and (Overijsselse) Vecht rivers; the Regge stream, which flows through Twente to spend its last few kilometers in Salland before ending in the Vecht near Ommen; the Schipbeek stream; and the Soestwetering stream, which merges with a number of lesser streams near Zwolle to form river Zwarte Water.
Vechte, a river that originates in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and ends in confluence with river Zwarte Water in the Netherlands province of Overijssel; often called Overijsselse Vecht in Dutch
The characters of Zwarte Pieten appear only in the weeks before Saint Nicholas's feast, first when the saint is welcomed with a parade as he arrives in the country (generally by boat, having traveled from Madrid, Spain).