The Canindé River is an intermittent stream flowing into the Parnaiba River near Amarante in the State of Piauí in northeastern Brazil. The stream flows from headwaters in Serra Dois Irmãos and Serra da Acauã foothills, near Afranio, Pernambuco northwest into Piauí then through Paulistana, Oeiras and Amarante on the junction of the Canindé with the Parnaiba. 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.[1]
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The Canindé and its tributary the Piauí River[Note 1] which enters it about 125 km below Oeiras, constitute what is often referred to as the Caninde-Piaui river system. The Caninde / Piauí River basin with an area of approximately 75,000 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 Piaui.
The Caninde-Piaui 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.[2]
etymology
The name of the river comes from the Tupi-Guarani Kanindé, and has several meanings:
- a tribe of indians that inhabited the banks of rivers 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, specifically Canindéyu from Kanindé, macaw + ju, yellow: the blue-and-yellow macaw.
See also
Notes
- ^ Originally Piauhi, the river from which the province derives its name
References
- ^ "Book seventh Chapter 2". Travels in Brazil in the years 1817-1820. Vol. 2. 1824–1831.
{{cite book}}:|first=missing|last=(help)CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Pellerin, J. (1984). Les bases physiques. In: GUIDON, N. (org.). L'aire archéologique du sud-est du Piauí. Paris: Recherche sur les Civilisations. pp. 11–12.
- Brazilian Ministry of Transport
- Analysis of the basin of Canindé River - Government of State of Piaui
- Historical context of the territory of the Caninde River Valley
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: TERRITORY OF CANINDÉ RIVER VALLEY
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