Canindé River (Piauí): Difference between revisions

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| length | elevation = {{convert|350|km|abbr=on}}

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The '''Canindé River''' is ana intermittentseasonal streamwaterway flowing into the [[Parnaiba River]] near [[Amarante Municipality, Piauí|Amarante]] in the State of [[Piauí]] in [[northeastern Brazil]]. The stream flows for approx. 370350&nbsp;km from headwaters in [[Serrathe Doisfoothills Irmãos]]on andthe [[SerraPiauí/Pernambuco daborder Acauã]](northwest foothills,of near [[AfranioAfrânio]], [[Pernambuco]]) northwest into Piauí then through [[Paulistana]] and Oeiras to Amarante on the junction of the Canindé with the ParnaibaParnaíba. [[Oeiras Municipality, Piauí|Oeiras]] is the main commercial center in the Canindé River valley. The [[biome]] type along the river is [[caatinga]], which is composed of typical northeastern Brazilian semiarid vegetation. The river and fauna and flora of the environs were described by the German naturalists [[Johann Baptist von Spix]] and [[Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius]] during their travels in Brazil in April and May, 1819.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spix |first1=Johann Baptist von |last2=Martius |first2=C. F. P. von |title=[[Travels in Brazil, in the yearsYears 1817-1820]]: Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria |firstdate=Spix2013 &|publisher=Cambridge University Press Martius|yearisbn=18249781108063821 |chapter-1831url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZUoAAAAQBAJ |volumelanguage=2en |sectionchapter=Book seventh Chapter 2|volume=2}}</ref>

The Canindé and its tributary the [[Piauí River (Piauí)|Piauí River]]{{#tag:ref|Originally ''Piauhi'', the river from which the province derives its name|group=Note}} which enters it about 125&nbsp;km below Oeiras, constitute what is often referred to as the CanindeCanindé-PiauiPiauí river system. The CanindeCanindé / Piauí River basin with an area of ​​approximatelyapproximately 75,000 km2&nbsp;km², is the largest sub-basin (29.7%) of the Parnaíba River Basin, which constitutes 98.3% of the land area of the State of PiauiPiauí.

The CanindeCanindé-PiauiPiauí river system and its tributaries present a temporary torrential flow regime: flow rate is characterized by abrupt variations due to tropical storms

during the January - April rainy season.<ref>{{cite book|last=Pellerin|first=J.|title=Les bases physiques. In: GUIDON, N. (org.). L'aire archéologique du sud-est du Piauí. Paris: Recherche sur les Civilisations|year=1984|pages=11-1211–12}}</ref>

Among the land-based economic activities of the Rio CanindeCanindé valley are the exploitation of Brazilian Wax palms (''[[Copernicia prunifera]]'') for the manufacture of carnauba wax, the extraction and commercialization of rubber from the Pará rubber tree (''[[Hevea brasiliensis]]''), and [[maniçoba]] (tapioca) from the Manioc plant (''[[Manihot esculenta]]''), and cattle ranching including dairy farming.

===etymology=Etymology==

* a tribe of indiansIndians that inhabited the banks of rivers [[Quixeramobim River|Quixeramobim]] and [[Banabuiú]];

* a large tribe of the Tarairyu nation, that lived in the central region of the backlands of [[Ceará]] (Quixada, Canindé and High Banabuiú, (Quixeramobim);

* a macaw with blue and yellow plumage, specifically Canindéyu from ''Kanindé'', blue macaw + ''ju'', yellow: the blue-and-yellow macaw (''[[Ara ararauna]]'', called ''Arara-caninde'' in Portuguese).<ref>{{cite book|last=Collar|title=Threatened Birds of the Americas|year=1992|display-authors=etal}}</ref>

*[http://www.ccom.pi.gov.br/download/CANIN.pdf Analysis of the basin of Canindé River - Government of State of Piaui] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109230259/http://www.ccom.pi.gov.br/download/CANIN.pdf |date=2014-01-09 }}

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