page_title: Piauí
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Piauí / Education
caption_attribution_description: Aerial view of Teresina and Poti river.
context_page_description: Piauí is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region.
  Piauí has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66 km, and the capital, Teresina, is the only state capital in the northeast to be located inland. The reason for this is, unlike the rest of the area, Piauí was first colonised inland and slowly expanded towards the ocean, rather than the other way around. In the southeast of the state, the National Park of Serra da Capivara is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park has more than 400 archaeological sites and the largest concentration of rock paintings in the world, in a landscape dominated by canyons and caatinga. The state is home to 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP.
context_section_description: Portuguese is the official national language, and thus the primary language taught in schools, but English and Spanish are part of the official high school curriculum.
caption: Teresina is the most important educational centre of the state.
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