Coat of arms | Arms of the Earl of Dundonald | Marquess of Maranhão ( also Earl of Dundonald in Scotland ).

The white star in the upper left corner symbolizes Maranhão itself, and is supposed to be Beta Scorpii, as the constellation Scorpius is also depicted on the national flag of Brazil.

But surprisingly, the occasional Swainson's Hawk – including birds one or two years of age – has also been recorded in the eastern states of Maranhão, Pará, Pernambuco, Piauí and Tocantins, thousands of kilometers away from their usual migration route and wintering grounds and sometimes in mid-summer.

Another map, Mapa da Ilha do Maranhão, made in 1757 again based upon Szentmartony's surveys, is also kept here.

Natal has several tourist attractions and is famous for its natural beauty ( such as the crystalline waters of Maracajaú and the largest cashew tree in the world ), for its historical monuments and buildings ( such as the Forte dos Reis Magos, the Alberto Maranhão Theatre and Newton Navarro bridge ), for its beaches ( such as Ponta Negra, Pipa and Genipabu ) and also for its off-season carnival, the Carnatal.

Exactly eleven days later he accepted a position as Full Professor at the Universidade Estadual do Maranhão in São Luís, state of Maranhão, where he became responsible for creating the Department of Biology ; and, for a short period ( 1987 – 1988 ) served also as Dean of the University.

The Estádio Governador João Castelo, also known as the Castelão, is a multi-purpose stadium inaugurated on March 9, 1975 in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, with a maximum capacity of 75, 263 people in a three-tier configuration.

Campeonato do Nordeste ( Northeastern Championship in English ), also known as Copa do Nordeste or Copa Nordeste ( Northeastern Cup ), is a Brazilian football competition contested between Northeastern region teams ( exclude teams from Maranhão and Piauí, which geographic belong to the North East region but played at Copa Norte ).

* January 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by the Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.

In his youth he had vowed to consecrate his life to the conversion of the negro slaves and native Indians of his adopted country, and arriving in Maranhão early in 1653 he recommenced his apostolic labors, which had been interrupted during his stay of fourteen years in the Old World.

Maranhão exports: aluminium 50 %, iron 23. 7 %, soybean 13. 1 % ( 2002 ).

Together with Timon in the nearby state of Maranhão, it forms a conurbation with a population of about 953, 172 inhabitants ; the entire metropolitan region of Teresina has over 1, 135, 920 inhabitants.

* 1902 – Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, Brazilian poet who designed the flag of the State of Maranhão ( b. 1833 )

He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

Some of these popular dances were known as bate-baú, samba-corrido, samba-de-roda, samba-de-Chave and samba-de-barravento in Bahia ; coco in Ceará ; tambor-de-crioula ( or ponga ) in Maranhão ; trocada, coco-de-parelha, samba de coco and soco-travado in Pernambuco ; bambelô in Rio Grande do Norte ; partido-alto, miudinho, jongo and caxambu in Rio de Janeiro ; and samba-lenço, samba-rural, tiririca, miudinho, and jongo in São Paulo.

Although samba exists throughout Brazil – especially in the states of Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, and São Paulo – in the form of various popular rhythms and dances that originated from the regional batuque, a type of music and associated dance form from Cape Verde, the samba is most frequently identified as a musical expression of urban Rio de Janeiro, where it was born and developed between the end of the 19th century and the first years of the 20th century.

It flows through four Brazilian states ( Goiás, Tocantins, Maranhão and Pará ) and gives its name to one of Brazil's newest states, formed in 1988 from what was until then the northern portion of Goiás.

Two other tributaries, called the Maranhão and Paranatinga, collect an immense volume of water from the highlands which surround them, especially on the south and south-east.

The murder happened inside a protected area in the state of Maranhão.

Harrisse believed the large estuary just west of the line on the Cantino map was that of the Rio Maranhão ( this estuary is now the Baía de São Marcos and the river is now the Mearim ), whose flow is so weak that its gulf does not contain fresh water.

José Sarney de Araújo Costa (; born 24 April 1930 in Pinheiro, Maranhão ) is a Brazilian lawyer, writer and politician.

Sarney ascended in the politics of his home state of Maranhão as part of the " Bossa Nova Generation " of UDN politicians in the 1950s, young idealists seeking to reorganize public administration and rid the government of corruption and old deleterious practices.

Sarney owns the most important newspapers and TV stations in Maranhão, and remains influential there, even though he is now a senator for the smaller state of Amapá.

After the military coup, Sarney was a member of the ARENA, the political party of the military government and was elected as governor of the state of Maranhão in 1966, serving until 1971.

In 1775 Brazilian Estados ( Brasil, Maranhão and Grão-Pará ) were unified into the Viceroyalty of Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro as capital.

Maranhão () is a northeastern state of Brazil.

Maranhão is neighbored by the ( clockwise from east ) states of Piauí, Tocantins and Pará.

The people of Maranhão have a distinctive accent inside the common Northeastern Brazilian dialect.

Maranhão is described in books such as The Land of the Palm Trees, by Gonçalves Dias, and Casas de Pensão by Aluísio Azevedo.

Another important conservation area is the Parnaíba River delta, between the states of Maranhão and Piauí, with its lagoons, desert dunes and deserted beaches or islands, such as the Caju island, which shelters rare birds.

The north-central and northeastern portion of the state, extending eastward into northern Piauí, is home to the Maranhão Babaçu forests, a degraded tropical moist forest ecoregion dominated by the Babaçu palm.

The Gurupi River forms the northwestern boundary of the state, separating Maranhão from neighboring Pará, and the Tocantins River forms part the state's southwestern boundary with Tocantins state.

The Parnaíba River forms the eastern boundary of Maranhão, but it has one large tributary, the Balsas, entirely within the state.

The states that formed the base of Telemar at its inception were Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, Bahia, Sergipe, Alagoas, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Piauí, Ceará, Maranhão, Pará, Amazonas, Amapá and Roraima, corresponding to 65 % of the Brazilian territory and 20 million households.

General Augusto Tasso Fragoso ( São Luiz, Maranhão August 28, 1869 – September 20, 1945 ) was the head of the government of Brazil in 1930, between the overthrow of President Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa and the oath of Getúlio Vargas.

Largely in response to the two attempts of France to conquer territory in Brazil ( the other one was named France Équinoxiale and occupied present-day São Luís, state of Maranhão ), between 1612 and 1615, the Portuguese crown decided to expand its colonization efforts in Brazil.

In reality, the map easily follows the northern coast of Brazil, between Maranhão and Ceará, with the Rio Parnaíba delta.

The Zona da Mata (, forest area ) is the narrow coastal plain between the Atlantic Ocean and the dry agreste and sertão regions in the northeastern Brazilian states of Maranhão, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and Bahia.

Piauí side of Parnaíba RiverThe Parnaíba River is a river in Brazil, which forms the border between the states of Maranhão and Piauí.

* Serra do Tiracambu, in Maranhão

Fixation was achieved with Portuguese religious missions and banners, linking the crib to the Fort St. Louis of Maranhão, by land and sailed up the Amazon River.

The Parnaíba River forms the boundary with Maranhão throughout its entire length, the state lies almost entirely within the basin of the Parnaíba and its tributaries.

The huge size of Brazil led to the colony being divided into two Estados ( states ) after 1621, when King Philip II created the Estado do Brasil, the most important colony with Salvador as capital, and the Estado do Maranhão, with capital in São Luís.

The state of Maranhão was still further divided in 1737 into the Estado do Maranhão e Piauí and the Estado do Grão-Pará e Rio Negro, with its capital in Belém do Pará.

In 1775 all Brazilian Estados ( Brasil, Maranhão and Grão-Pará ) were unified into the Viceroyalty of Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro as capital, and the title of the king's representative was officially changed to that of Viceroy of Brazil.

In the late eighteenth century, increased international demand for cotton to meet the English textile industry coupled with reduced production because of the North American War of Independence in the United States provided the perfect setting to stimulate cotton production in Maranhão.

Teresina is located near the border with the state of Maranhão, on the western border, at an altitude of 72 meters on average.

In 1775, all Brazilian Estados ( Brasil, Maranhão and Grão-Pará ) were unified into the Viceroyalty of Brazil, with Rio de Janeiro as capital.

The successful expedition against 50 Frenchmen and their Indian allies was led by the Captain-Major of the Captaincy of Pernambuco, Manuel de Mascarenhas Homem, with the assistance of Jerônimo de Albuquerque Maranhão.

The world hit that “ Segundo ” turned out to be, granted her in 2006, two additional Grammys Latinos – Best MPB Album and Best Brazilian Song with “ Caminho das Águas ” authored by Rodrigo Maranhão – and over 50 shows abroad, with full public and reviews acceptance in the Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Irving Plaza ( NY ), San Francisco Jazz Festival, among others.

The Hyacinth Macaw survives today in three main populations in South America: In the Pantanal region of Brazil, and adjacent eastern Bolivia and northeastern Paraguay, in the Cerrado region of the eastern interior of Brazil ( Maranhão, Piauí, Bahia, Tocantins, Goiás, Mato Grosso and Minas Gerais ), and in the relatively open areas associated with the Tocantins River, Xingu River, Tapajós River, and the Marajó island in the eastern Amazon Basin of Brazil.

" She continued her studies of the Brazilian avifauna with field trips to Minas Gerais, Maranhão, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo state, and the Brazilian Amazon.