The Canindé River is a seasonal waterway flowing into the
Parnaiba River near
Amarante in the State of
Piauí
Piauí ( ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
Piauí has the shortest coastline of any coas ...
in
northeastern Brazil
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. The stream flows for approx. 350 km from headwaters in the foothills on the Piauí/Pernambuco border (northwest of
Afrânio,
Pernambuco
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) northwest into Piauí then through
Paulistana and Oeiras to Amarante on the junction of the Canindé with the Parnaíba.
Oeiras is the main commercial center in the Canindé River valley. The
biome
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type along the river is
caatinga
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, 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
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and
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius
Carl Friedrich Philipp (Karl Friedrich Philipp) von Martius (17 April 1794 – 13 December 1868) was a German botany, botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His m ...
during their travels in Brazil in April and May, 1819.
The Canindé and its tributary the
Piauí River Piauí River may refer to:
* Piauí River (Piauí)
* Piauí River (Alagoas)
* Piauí River (Minas Gerais)
* Piauí River (Sergipe)
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which enters it about 125 km below Oeiras, constitute what is often referred to as the Canindé-Piauí river system. The Canindé / Piauí River basin with an area of approximately 75,000 km
2, is the largest sub-basin (29.7%) of the Parnaíba River Basin, which constitutes 98.3% of the land area of the State of Piauí.
The Canindé-Piauí 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.
Among the land-based economic activities of the Rio Canindé 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
''Hevea brasiliensis'', the Pará rubber tree, ''sharinga'' tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, originally native to the Amazon basin, but is now p ...
''), and
maniçoba (tapioca) from the Manioc plant (''
Manihot esculenta''), and cattle ranching including dairy farming.
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
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(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).
See also
*
List of rivers of Piauí
Notes
References
External links
Analysis of the basin of Canindé River - Government of State of Piaui*
ttp://www.codevasf.gov.br/principal/publicacoes/publicacoes-atuais/pdf/livro_07.pdf EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: TERRITORY OF CANINDÉ RIVER VALLEY
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Rivers of Piauí