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São Luís, Maranhão

Index São Luís, Maranhão

São Luís (Saint Louis) is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Maranhão. [1]

86 relations: Alcântara, Maranhão, Alcione Nazareth, Alcoa, Aluísio Azevedo, Amazon basin, Amazon rainforest, American Civil War, Artur Azevedo, Association football, Baía de São Marcos, Bacanga State Park, Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics, Bumba Meu Boi, Campeonato Maranhense, Candomblé, Capoeira, Cocoa bean, Cotton, Dan Kearns, Democratic Labour Party (Brazil), Dutch Brazil, Economy, Equinoctial France, European Portuguese, Federal University of Maranhão, Ferreira Gullar, Ferry, Florianópolis, Forró, François de Razilly, Gonçalves Dias, Graça Aranha, Hanged, drawn and quartered, Intertropical Convergence Zone, Iron ore, Itapecuru River, List of largest cities in Brazil, Louis IX of France, Louis XIII of France, Luís Oliveira, Mangrove, Maranhão, Maranhão Atlético Clube, Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport, Maria Firmina dos Reis, Mayor, Música popular brasileira, Mearim River, Metallurgy, ..., Moto Club de São Luís, Munim River, Northeast Region, Brazil, Pindaré River, Ponta da Madeira, Port, Porto do Itaqui, Recife, Reggae, Regions of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão, Salvador, Bahia, Samba, Sampaio Corrêa Futebol Clube, São Luís Island, Sítio Rangedor State Park, Secondary school, State football leagues in Brazil, States of Brazil, Steve Kearns, Sugarcane, Tide, Tobacco, Tropical monsoon climate, Tropical savanna climate, Tupi language, Tupinambá people, UNESCO, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças Environmental Protection Area, UTC−03:00, Vale (company), Vitória, Espírito Santo, World Heritage site, Zeca Baleiro. Expand index (36 more) »

Alcântara, Maranhão

Alcântara is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Maranhão.

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Alcione Nazareth

Alcione Dias Nazareth (born November 21, 1947) is also known as, "Alcione", and "A Marrom" (English: "the brown one") and is one of the most successful female samba singers, or sambistas, in Brazil.

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Alcoa

Alcoa Corporation (from Aluminum Company of America) is an American industrial corporation.

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Aluísio Azevedo

Aluísio Tancredo Gonçalves de Azevedo (14 April 1857 – 21 January 1913) was a Brazilian novelist, caricaturist, diplomat, playwright and short story writer.

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Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

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Amazon rainforest

The Amazon rainforest (Portuguese: Floresta Amazônica or Amazônia; Selva Amazónica, Amazonía or usually Amazonia; Forêt amazonienne; Amazoneregenwoud), also known in English as Amazonia or the Amazon Jungle, is a moist broadleaf forest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Artur Azevedo

Artur Nabantino Gonçalves de Azevedo (7 July 1855 – 22 October 1908) was a Brazilian playwright, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and Parnassian poet.

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Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

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Baía de São Marcos

The Baía de São Marcos is a bay of the Atlantic Ocean in Maranhão state of northeastern Brazil.

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Bacanga State Park

The Bacanga State Park (Parque Estadual do Bacanga) is a state park in the state of Maranhão, Brazil.

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Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area

The Baixada Maranhense Environmental Protection Area (Área de Proteção Ambiental da Baixada Maranhense) is an environmental protection area in the state of Maranhão, Brazil.

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Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics or IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística) is the agency responsible for official collection of statistical, geographic, cartographic, geodetic and environmental information in Brazil.

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Bumba Meu Boi

Bumba Meu Boi is an interactive play celebrated in Brazil that originated in the 18th Century that has evolved into a nationwide festival.

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Campeonato Maranhense

The Campeonato Maranhense is the football league of the state of Maranhão, Brazil.

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Candomblé

Candomblé (dance in honour of the gods) is an Afro-American religious tradition, practiced mainly in Brazil.

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Capoeira

Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics, and music.

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Cocoa bean

The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.

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Cotton

Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.

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Dan Kearns

Dan Kearns (born November 23, 1956) is a former Canadian football defensive lineman who played ten seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Edmonton Eskimos and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

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Democratic Labour Party (Brazil)

The Democratic Labour Party (Partido Democrático Trabalhista, PDT) is a social democratic political party in Brazil.

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Dutch Brazil

Dutch Brazil, also known as New Holland, was the northern portion of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, ruled by the Dutch during the Dutch colonization of the Americas between 1630 and 1654.

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Economy

An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.

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Equinoctial France

Equinoctial France (French France équinoxiale) was the contemporary name given to the colonization efforts of France in the 17th century in South America, around the line of Equator, before "tropical" had fully gained its modern meaning: Equinoctial means in Latin "of equal nights", i.e., on the Equator, where the duration of days and nights is nearly the same year round.

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European Portuguese

European Portuguese (português europeu), also known as Lusitanian Portuguese (português lusitano) and Portuguese of Portugal (português de Portugal) in Brazil, or even “Portuguese Portuguese” refers to the Portuguese language spoken in Portugal.

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Federal University of Maranhão

The Federal University of Maranhão (Universidade Federal do Maranhão, UFMA) is a federal university in the northeastern state of Maranhão, Brazil.

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Ferreira Gullar

José Ribamar Ferreira (September 10, 1930 – December 4, 2016), known by his pen name Ferreira Gullar, was a Brazilian poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer.

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Ferry

A ferry is a merchant vessel used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo as well, across a body of water.

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Florianópolis

Florianópolis is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil.

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Forró

Forró (*) is a genre of Brazilian music that originated in Northeastern Brazil.

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François de Razilly

François de Razilly was a French nobleman of the 17th century who led the colonial enterprise to found "France Équinoxiale".

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Gonçalves Dias

Antônio Gonçalves Dias (August 10, 1823November 3, 1864) was a Brazilian Romantic poet, playwright, ethnographer, lawyer and linguist.

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Graça Aranha

José Pereira da Graça Aranha (June 21, 1868 – January 26, 1931) was a Brazilian writer and diplomat, considered to be a forerunner of the Modernism in Brazil.

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Hanged, drawn and quartered

To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1352 a statutory penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reign of King Henry III (1216–1272).

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Intertropical Convergence Zone

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), known by sailors as the doldrums, is the area encircling Earth near the Equator, where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Itapecuru River

The Itapecuru River (Rio Itapecuru) is a river in the Maranhão state of northern Brazil.

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List of largest cities in Brazil

Brazil has a high level of urbanization: 82 out of every 100 Brazilians live in cities.

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Louis IX of France

Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis, was King of France and is a canonized Catholic and Anglican saint.

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Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII (27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1610 to 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

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Luís Oliveira

Luís Airton Barroso "Lulù" Oliveira (born 24 March 1969 in São Luis, Maranhão, Brazil) is a football manager and former player, who is currently coach of Floriana in the Maltese Premier League.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Maranhão

Maranhão is a northeastern state of Brazil.

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Maranhão Atlético Clube

Maranhão Atlético Clube, usually known as Maranhão or MAC, is a Brazilian football club from São Luís, Maranhão state.

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Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport

Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport, formerly called Tirirical Airport, is the airport serving São Luís, Brazil.

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Maria Firmina dos Reis

Maria Firmina dos Reis (October 11, 1825 – November 11, 1917) was a Brazilian abolitionist and author.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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Música popular brasileira

Música popular brasileira (Popular Brazilian Music) or MPB is a trend in post-bossa nova urban popular music in Brazil that revisits typical Brazilian styles such as samba, samba-canção and baião and other Brazilian regional music, combining them with foreign influences, such as from jazz and rock.

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Mearim River

The Mearim River is a river in Maranhão state of northern Brazil.

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Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are called alloys.

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Moto Club de São Luís

Moto Club de São Luís, or Moto Club, as they are usually called, is a Brazilian football team from São Luís in Maranhão, founded on September 13, 1937.

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Munim River

The Munim River (Rio Munim) is a river of Maranhão state in northeastern Brazil.

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Northeast Region, Brazil

The Northeast Region of Brazil (Região Nordeste do Brasil) is one of the five official and political regions of the country according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.

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Pindaré River

The Pindaré River is a river in Maranhão state of north-central Brazil.

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Ponta da Madeira

The Ponta da Madeira Maritime Terminal, owned by mining company Vale, sits next to the public Porto do Itaqui, in the state of Maranhão, in northern Brazil.

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Port

A port is a maritime commercial facility which may comprise one or more wharves where ships may dock to load and discharge passengers and cargo.

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Porto do Itaqui

Port of Itaqui is the largest cargo port in Brazil, near the city of São Luís, Maranhão.

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Recife

Recife is the fourth-largest urban agglomeration in Brazil with 3,995,949 inhabitants, the largest urban agglomeration of the North/Northeast Regions, and the capital and largest city of the state of Pernambuco in the northeast corner of South America.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Regions of Brazil

Brazil is geopolitically divided into five regions (also called macroregions) by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE); each region is composed of three or more states.

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Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro (River of January), or simply Rio, is the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão (Archidioecesis Sancti Ludovici in Maragnano) is a Latin archdiocese in Brazil.

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Salvador, Bahia

Salvador, also known as São Salvador, Salvador de Bahia, and Salvador da Bahia, is the capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

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Samba

Samba is a Brazilian musical genre and dance style, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions, particularly of Angola and the Congo, through the samba de roda genre of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, from which it derived.

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Sampaio Corrêa Futebol Clube

Sampaio Corrêa Futebol Clube, usually known as Sampaio Corrêa, is a Brazilian association football club from São Luís, Maranhão state, founded on March 25, 1923.

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São Luís Island

São Luís Island also known as Upaon-açu Island (officially) or Maranhão Island is an island in state of Maranhão, Brazil with an area of 1,410 km² (544 sq mi), located between the Baía de São Marcos and the Baía de São José.

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Sítio Rangedor State Park

The Sítio Rangedor State Park (Parque Estadual do Sítio do Rangedor) is a state park in the state of Maranhão, Brazil.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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State football leagues in Brazil

State football leagues in Brazil are football leagues competed in each of the 26 states of Brazil and in the Federal District.

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States of Brazil

The Federative Republic of Brazil is a union of 27 Federative Units (Unidades Federativas, UF): 26 states (estados) and one federal district (distrito federal), where the federal capital, Brasília, is located.

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Steve Kearns

Steve Kearns (born November 23, 1956) is a former Canadian football slotback who played six seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL) with the BC Lions and Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

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Sugarcane

Sugarcane, or sugar cane, are several species of tall perennial true grasses of the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae, native to the warm temperate to tropical regions of South and Southeast Asia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and used for sugar production.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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Tropical monsoon climate

A tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category "Am".

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Tropical savanna climate

Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a type of climate that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories "Aw" and "As".

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Tupi language

Old Tupi or classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil.

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Tupinambá people

The Tupinambá were one of the various Tupi ethnic groups that inhabited present-day Brazil before the conquest of the region by Portuguese colonial settlers.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças Environmental Protection Area

The Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças Environmental Protection Area (Área de Proteção Ambiental Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças) is an environmental protection area in the state of Maranhão, Brazil.

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UTC−03:00

UTC−03:00 is a time offset that subtracts 3 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

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Vale (company)

Vale S.A. is a Brazilian multinational corporation engaged in metals and mining and one of the largest logistics operators in Brazil.

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Vitória, Espírito Santo

Vitória (Victory), spelled Victória until the 1940s, is the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil.

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World Heritage site

A World Heritage site is a landmark or area which is selected by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having cultural, historical, scientific or other form of significance, and is legally protected by international treaties.

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Zeca Baleiro

José Ribamar Coelho Santos (born 11 April, 1966), better known by his stage name Zeca Baleiro, is a Brazilian MPB artist.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/São_Luís,_Maranhão

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