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Piripiri Point , a figure in Māori mythology
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Piripiri may refer to: Places * Piripiri, Piauí, Brazil * Piripiri, Manawatū-Whanganui, New Zealand * Piripiri Caves and Piri Piri School, in Waitomo District, New Zealand Plants * ''Acaena'' (Māori: ''piripiri''), a plant genus of the Southern Hemisphere * ''Cyperus giganteus'', a plant of Latin America * Piripiri pepper, or ''peri-peri'', a Capiscum cultivar See also * Hinepiripiri In Māori mythology Hinepiripiri occurs in some versions of the legend of Tāwhaki as Tāwhaki's wife and the mother of Wahieroa In Māori mythology, Wahieroa is a son of Tāwhaki, and father of Rātā. Tāwhaki was attacked and left for dead by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piripiri, Piauí
Piripiri, Piauí is a Municipalities of Brazil, municipality in the states of Brazil, state of Piauí in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast region of Brazil. The city's population numbered approximately 63,787 people as of 2020. The municipality contains part of the Serra da Ibiapaba Environmental Protection Area, created in 1996. Name The name "Piripiri" comes from "Peripery", which means, for some, grass or grasses, and for others, bulrush, bush found near ponds. The city was so named for having much of this grass on founder's farm, Father Domingos de Freitas e Silva. On November 21, 1944, a IBGE resolution renamed the city Piripiri. History The city origin comes from ingrown land in a place called "Botica" issued to Antonio Fernandes Macedo on January 20, 1777. Its foundation goes back to an unknown date of the year 1844, when its owner, Father Domingos de Freitas e Silva, came seeking refuge, after fighting for independence of Piaui, built a house in a place called An ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piripiri, Manawatū-Whanganui
Piripiri (sometimes called Piri Piri) is a sparsely populated area in the Manawatū-Whanganui region, on State Highway 2 and the Palmerston North–Gisborne line. It is north of Dannevirke, and has 150 people (2018 census) scattered over a meshblock of . Piri means to cling. The Māori name of a clinging plant, piripiri (Acaena anserinifolia), is Anglicised as bidibid. Other places named Piripiri are - * Piripiri Stream, a tributary of the Pohangina River, on the opposite side of the Ruahine Range from Piripiri, with Piripiri Hut, a free 2-bunk hut, by its headwaters * a small settlement in the Waitomo District, with Mangapohue Natural Bridge and Piripiri Caves nearby * Te Piripiri Stream, a tributary of the Tongariro River * Te Piripiri Bay, Lake Waikaremoana * Piripiri Point, Auckland, on Te Araroa long distance walkway, north of Pōhutukawa Bay * a mountain above Picton in the Robertson Range Piripiri had a cheese factory from at least 1910 to 1935. The local post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piri Piri School
Te Anga is a rural community in the Waitomo District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. Marokopa River runs through the area. The river is not safe to swim in due to high rates of E. coli, but farmers have put in plans to reduce water pollution. The area transitioned from sheep farming to more intensive dairy farming at the turn of the century. The local landscape consists of limestones, calcareous mudstones and sandstones, with small areas of basal conglomerates and coal measures. Te Anga is in meshblocks 1018799, 1019601 and 4002699, which had a population of 129 people in the 2018 census. Marokopa Falls and Mangapohue Natural Bridge The Mangapohue Natural Bridge consists of two rock arches formed by the Mangapohue Stream in the Marokopa River valley near Waitomo, New Zealand. The 17 m high limestone arches are a remnant of an ancient cave system. The smaller lower rock ar ... are close to Te Anga. Education Piri Piri School is a co-educational sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waitomo District
Waitomo District is a territorial authority, located in the Waikato region, at the north of the King Country area in the North Island of New Zealand. A small part of the district, the locality of Tiroa, however, lies in the Manawatū-Whanganui region. The District covers the west coast from Te Maika, on Kawhia Harbour, to the north of Taharoa, to Mokau in the south and extends inland to Maniaiti / Benneydale and Mount Pureora. Demographics Waitomo District covers and had an estimated population of as of with a population density of people per km2. Waitomo District had a population of 9,303 at the 2018 New Zealand census, an increase of 396 people (4.4%) since the 2013 census, and a decrease of 135 people (−1.4%) since the 2006 census. There were 3,384 households, comprising 4,695 males and 4,605 females, giving a sex ratio of 1.02 males per female. The median age was 38.2 years (compared with 37.4 years nationally), with 2,082 people (22.4%) aged under 15 years, 1, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acaena
''Acaena'' is a genus of about 60 species of mainly evergreen, creeping herbaceous perennial plants and subshrubs in the family Rosaceae, native mainly to the Southern Hemisphere, notably New Zealand, Australia and South America, but with a few species extending into the Northern Hemisphere, north to Hawaii ('' A. exigua'') and California ('' A. pinnatifida''). The leaves are alternate, long, and pinnate or nearly so, with 7–21 leaflets. The flowers are produced in a tight globose nflorescence in diameter, with no petals. The fruit is also a dense ball of many seeds; in many (but not all) species the seeds bear a barbed arrowhead point, the seedhead forming a burr which attaches itself to animal fur or feathers for dispersal. Several ''Acaena'' species in New Zealand are known by the common name bidibid. The word is written variously ''bidi-bidi'', ''biddy-biddy'', ''biddi-biddi'', ''biddi-bid'' and a number of other variations. These names are the English rendition of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyperus Giganteus
''Cyperus giganteus'' (also known as piripiri) is a perennial herbaceous plant. It belongs to the genus ''Cyperus''. Its native range extends from Jalisco in west-central Mexico as far south as Uruguay, and also grows on some islands in the Caribbean (Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Trinidad). The species is sparingly naturalized in eastern Texas and southern Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde .... References * giganteus Plants described in 1805 Flora of Mexico Flora of Central America Flora of Southern America Flora of the Caribbean Taxa named by Martin Vahl {{Cyperus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piripiri Pepper
( , often hyphenated or as one word, and with variant spellings , ''piripiri'' or ) is a cultivar of '' Capsicum frutescens'' from the malagueta pepper. It was originally produced by Portuguese explorers in Portugal's former Southern African territories, particularly Mozambique and its border regions with South Africa, and then spread to other Portuguese domains. Etymology ''Pilipili'' in Swahili means "pepper". Other romanizations include in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Malawi, deriving from various pronunciations of the word in different parts of Bantu-speaking Africa. is also the spelling used as a loanword in some African Portuguese-language countries, especially in the Mozambican community. The spelling is common in English, for example in reference to African-style chili sauce, but in Portuguese it is nearly always spelled ''piri-piri''. The ''Oxford Dictionary of English'' records as a foreign word meaning "a very hot sauce made with red ", and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
