Teresina is a Brazilian city, capital of the state native of northeastern Brazil from Piauí and it is the only capital of the Northeast Area that is not in the coast. History THE origin of the city is tied up to Rio Poty (or Rio Poti, that gave name to the New Villa of Poti, later denominated Teresina in honor to the Imperatriz Teresa Cristina, woman of Dom Pedro II. It was founded in 1832 with the designation of New Villa of Poti. The city is the capital of the State since 1852, when consultant José Hails it founded it, transferring the administrative thirst of the County of Piauí of the city of Oeiras for the current capital, Teresina. Characteristics THE city of Teresina is the headquarters of a municipal district with about 800 thousand inhabitants and 1.680 km². Its metropolitan area (Great Teresina), composed by the Capital and for neighboring cities, he/she has more than 1 million inhabitants. It is located in the microrregião of Teresina, mesorregião of Center-north Piauiense. The city is placed among the river Parnaíba and the river Poti, belonging to the basin hidrográfica of the river Parnaíba. For that characteristic, there is who calls the capital piauiense of Mesopotâmia of the Northeast. Placed in the right margin of the river Parnaíba, tends as border west, beside the State of Maranhão, the city of Timon - To the West the State of Ceará, Pernambuco, and to the Southwest them of Bahia and to the South End Bahia and Tocantins (With the smallest emblem strip with Piauí). The main highways that give access to the city are for BR-343, at BR-316 and PI-130. Teresina also possesses an important airport with flights for the main cities of the country. Teresina is located in a Plated denominated area of Corisco, that because the capital of Piauí is the third city of the world where more happens sequences of electric discharges. In the north zone of the city, the two rivers join and they become an alone bed in direction to the Oceano Atlântico. The show, of rare beauty, forms the encounter of the waters. In the place there is an environmental park, with observatories, so that the landscape can be appreciated well closely. There also it is possible to find some pieces of ceramic of the rich craft of Teresina and a monument that it illustrates the legend of the Head of Cuia, character of the local folklore. Due to its proximity with the line of Ecuador, Teresina possesses temperatures that vary from 26° to 38°, during the whole year, with the smallest temperatures happening during the first five months of the year. Economy and services For its privileged location, the tertiary section (trade and services) he/she had significant development in Teresina, extending its influence for a great territory. The activities linked to the attendance of public health have prominence in the economy of the City, that a center of medical reference is considered in the Northeast area. Teresina possesses, in agreement with statistics of the City hall, 634 establishments of health, being 8 hospitals, 181 medical clinics and 170 clinics, using fifteen thousand people. The education section is another area of reference of the Capital, that counts today with more than 25 higher education institutions, attracting students of several States, notedly of the areas North and Northeast. In the industry, he/she stands out the textile industry and of makings, that it exports for another areas and it generates about ten thousand employments. There are still assemblers of bicycles, industries of drinks, medications, chemistry, pieces of furniture and ceramic, among another. The civil construction (that had great pulse in the last fifteen years with the verticalização of the City) and the growing tourism (so much the tourism of business and events all that uses the hotel net of the city to visit other areas of the state) they also have growing economic importance.