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Teresina
Piauí, Brazil · South America
About Teresina
Teresina sits on the route: 5 minutes from Timon.
Teresina is in Piauí, Brazil, with about 870,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Timon, about 4 km away.
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 inRead more
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.
Teresina is the capital with the best quality of life in the North-Northeast according to FIRJANTooltip Industry Federation of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the fourth in Brazil. It is among the 50 cities in the world with the highest murder rates, with 315 homicides in 2017.
Its motto is the Latin phrase Omnia in Charitatis, which means, in English, "All for charity". The city is the birthplace of, among others, Torquato Neto, who belonged to the Tropicalismo movement.
Its cathedral, Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora das Dores, dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, is the archiepiscopal see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Teresina.
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Teresina is in Piauí, Brazil, about 4 km from Timon.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 871,126
- Continent
- South America
- Country
- Brazil
- Region
- Piauí
- Timezone
- America/Fortaleza
- Coordinates
- -5.0892, -42.8019
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Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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