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Teresina
Capital city of Piauí, Brazil

Teresina

Teresina is the capital and most populous municipality in the Brazilian state of Piauí.

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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.

Get in

Getting to Teresina

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    Teresina Airport/Senador Petrônio Portella
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    Rodoviária de Teresina
See

Worth seeing

Benedict the Moore Church (Igreja São Benedito).

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    João Isidoro França Sesquicentennial Cable Suspension Bridge

    Raul Lopes (access road - lookout is on Av.

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    O Encontro das Aguas

    The river Poti flows into the river Parnaíba on its way to the Atlantic, 8 km north of the center.

Do

Things to do

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    Alberto Silva Stadium
Eat

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)

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Boaventuravinicius (CC BY 4.0), Wikimedia Commons.