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Parnaiba

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Parnaíba 

a river in northeastern Brazil. It is about 1,450 km or, according to other sources, 1,700 km long. It drains an area of about 350,000 sq km. It rises in the Brazilian Highlands, on the slopes of the Serra de Tabatinga. There are rapids in the upper and middle course. The lower course crosses the Parnaíba depression, where the river becomes navigable at the city of Teresina. The river regularly floods. The average annual flow of water is about 2,400 cu m per sec. The Boa Esperança hydroengineering complex (a complex consisting of power plants, reservoirs, canals, and the like) has been under construction since 1964. In 1970 the first phase of a hydroelectric power station with a 164-megawatt capacity was completed. The cities of Floriano, Teresina, and Parnaíba are situated on the Parnaíba.
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Salons, festivals, notorious dances, weeks spent as a group on opulent estates, Easter weeks in the old cities of Minas Gerais, trips through Amazonas, the Northeast, visits to Bahia, constant excursions to the paulista past, Sorocaba, Parnaiba, Itu.
The modernist movement by De Andrade, Mario / Portuguese Studies
2000), ambos para os municipios de Teresina e Parnaiba, Estado do Piaui.
Economic feasibility of cowpea irrigation in Piaui State/Viabilidade ... by Mousinho, Francisco Edinaldo Pinto; de Andrade Junior, Aderson Soares; Frizzone, Jose Antonio / Acta Scientiarum Agronomy (UEM)
1) based on the experiences of the slaves and small farmers of Santana de Parnaiba in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Parnaiba, 1580-1822 by Kuznesof, Elizabeth A. / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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