Teresina
Teresina is the capital and most populous municipality in the Brazilian state of Piauí.
Teresina is the capital and most populous municipality in the Brazilian state of Piauí. Being located in north-central Piauí 366 km from the coast, it is the only capital in the Brazilian Northeast that is not located on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean. With 902,644 inhabitants, Teresina is the 19th largest city in Brazil, and the 16th largest state capital in the country. Together with Timon in the neighbouring state of Maranhão, it forms a conurbation with a population of about 2,729,527 inhabitants; the entire metropolitan region of Teresina has over 2,893,729 inhabitants. The only natural barrier that separates Teresina from Timon is the Parnaíba River, one of the largest in the Northeast.
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Worth seeing in and around Teresina
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What Wikivoyage says to see
Benedict the Moore Church (Igreja São Benedito).
- 01João Isidoro França Sesquicentennial Cable Suspension Bridge
Raul Lopes (access road - lookout is on Av.
- 02O Encontro das Aguas
The river Poti flows into the river Parnaíba on its way to the Atlantic, 8 km north of the center.
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Things to do
- 01Alberto Silva Stadium
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Where to eat
Celso's. Piauíese specialities. Rua Angélica 1059, Fátima Panela de Barro, Av. Pedro Freitas 1965 Camarão do Elias. Seafood, especially crabs. Av. Pedro Almeida 457 O Pesqueirinho. Rua Domingos Jorge Velho 6889 (by the river)
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Getting to Teresina
- Stations
- Teresina Airport, 3.4 km
- São Luís → Teresina330 km · quickest by road, 8h 19m · R$120–160
- Fortaleza → Teresina496 km · quickest by road, 10h 39m · R$160–215
- Belém → Teresina751 km · quickest by road, 16h 21m · R$250–330
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Teresina
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Teresina. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Teresina – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Teresina
- Timonmunicipality of Maranhão state, Brazil2.3 km