Pedro II, Piauí is a
municipality
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in the
state
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of
Piauí in the
Northeast region of
Brazil
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.
The municipality contains part of the
Serra da Ibiapaba Environmental Protection Area
The Serra da Ibiapaba Environmental Protection Area ( pt, Área de Proteção Ambiental Serra da Ibiapaba) is an environmental protection area in the states of Piauí and Ceará, Brazil.
It contains fragments of cerrado, caatinga and Atlantic F ...
, created in 1996.
See also
*
List of municipalities in Piauí
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Piauí (PI), located in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Piauí is divided into 224 municipalities, which are grouped into 15 microregions, which are grouped into 4 mesoregions.
See als ...
*Pedro II (Pedro Segundo), named after Brazil's last Emperor. The city has the only mined opal deposit in South America. A mine in Peru closed a few years ago. Opals were discovered here in 1930 by a man who was washing a
cassava
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for his lunch. The strange stone was sent to Teresina where it was identified as an opal.
References
Municipalities in Piauí
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