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Teresina

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Teresina (tārāzē`nä), city (1991 pop. 599,272), capital of Piauí state, NE Brazil, on the Parnaíba River. It is the main commercial and agricultural distribution center in the Parnaíba valley; cattle, hides and skins, rice, wax, beans, and cassava are shipped through the city. Its industries produce textiles, sugar, soap, and lumber. Teresina was a planned city formally established in 1852 and named for Brazilian Empress Teresa Cristina Maria.
Teresina
an inland port in NE Brazil, capital of Piauí state, on the Parnaíba River: chief commercial centre of the Parnaíba valley. Pop.: 895 000 (2005 est.)
Teresina 

a city in northeastern Brazil, situated on the Parnaiba River; capital of the state of Piaui. Population, 220,500 (1970). Teresina has a railroad station. The city has enterprises of the textile and food-processing industries.
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Michael Caruso of Framingham, and Dominic Caruso of Newton; an aunt, Teresina Pirro, of Italy; his sister-in-law, Diane Blessing, many nieces, nephews and cousins whom he loved and treasured, as well as his dear friend John Murphy, whose company he greatly enjoyed.
Anthony Robert Caruso by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
The sentiments are those of Teresina Jeantette, who, as ex-bartender at Fernandez Tavern and present dispenser of inebriating influences at the Taos Inn, is an authority on morals, manners and manipulations of her fellow Taosenos.
THE PAST 100 YEARS by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
In the northeastern state of Piaui, heavy rains continued to cause the Poty river to rise, flooding many parts of Teresina, the capital.
Brazil flood death toll rises by Aljazeera.net
 
 
 
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